Microsoft seems to be setting all their defaults to "screw the user". This isn't good. Distributing Windows 10 as a drive-by install that takes over your machine and turns it into a spamming node is really sleazy.
Microsoft is giving away Windows 10. That's a huge problem. It's not a compelling product they can get people to pay for, unlike all previous versions of Windows. Microsoft, for the first time, has to claw its revenue out of the user some other way.
For decades, Microsoft has been hard on their competitors and hardware suppliers, and they've had antitrust problems. But Microsoft didn't usually apply pain to their users, who were their primary customers. With Windows 10, that all changes. Windows users, you are no longer the customer. You are the product.
This may not end well for Microsoft, because most of their revenue is in the B2B space. Business customers don't like being the product.
Sorry, there are just too many factually incorrect claims in your hyperbolic hysteria.....
Distributing Windows 10 as a drive-by install that takes over your machine and turns it into a spamming node is really sleazy.
You only get the Windows 10 download if you have requested it. This means it is not actually a drive-by install, even if you are determined to use the term to smear Microsoft. (Drive-by installs are not requested and are usually from websites.)
Microsoft is giving away Windows 10.
This isn't true, and I'm frankly amazed you don't realize that it it's not true.
Microsoft is giving consumers a free upgrade to Windows 10 if they have already paid for Windows 7 or 8. This is no different from Apple or Google giving away OS upgrades to people who have already paid for the product in the same way as Windows users (bundled with hardware).
It's not a compelling product they can get people to
> pay for, unlike all previous versions of Windows.
Yeah, and by the same pretend "logic", Apple and Google don't have operating systems they could get people to pay for either.
Microsoft, for the first time, has to claw its revenue out of the user some other way.
The business model hasn't changed. OEMs pay to install Windows 10, exactly like every other version of Windows. Microsoft is still in the software business, not, like Google, the surveillance-and-advertising business.
You're welcome to your conspiracy theories, of course. However, perhaps it would be better if you didn't try to support them with facts, because you don't appear to be able to get them correct ;-)
Claiming that Microsoft is not in the surveillance-and-advertising business is rather facetious. Of course they are! Or .. why else are they harvesting absolutely everything they can possibly find out about me, from the moment the install is completed, until the final day when I uncover the secret options that turns it all off? If they weren't in the surveillance-and-advertising business, none of the spy options would be default to "On" ..
It's not its main business, by a very long way. It is, however, Google's main business, and the main business of quite a few free Android and iOS apps.
until the final day when I uncover the secret options
So you did an Express install instead of actually going through the options? More fool you.
Actually I cancelled my upgrade. I'll sit this one out until it makes sense to actually do the upgrade - at the moment, I'm not seeing any benefit to be had in doing it, and a lot of liability.
"It's not a compelling product they can get people to pay for, unlike all previous versions of Windows."
I don't think Windows has been a compelling product people pay for since Windows 95 (or just maybe XP). How many home users specifically go out of their way to buy Windows? IME most people use whichever version of Windows comes with their computer when they buy it, and only change versions when they buy a new computer. So the people who are getting a Windows 10 upgrade for free are mostly people who wouldn't have bought it anyway.
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Microsoft seems to be setting all their defaults to "screw the user". This isn't good. Distributing Windows 10 as a drive-by install that takes over your machine and turns it into a spamming node is really sleazy.
Microsoft is giving away Windows 10. That's a huge problem. It's not a compelling product they can get people to pay for, unlike all previous versions of Windows. Microsoft, for the first time, has to claw its revenue out of the user some other way.
For decades, Microsoft has been hard on their competitors and hardware suppliers, and they've had antitrust problems. But Microsoft didn't usually apply pain to their users, who were their primary customers. With Windows 10, that all changes. Windows users, you are no longer the customer. You are the product.
This may not end well for Microsoft, because most of their revenue is in the B2B space. Business customers don't like being the product.
Sorry, there are just too many factually incorrect claims in your hyperbolic hysteria.....
You only get the Windows 10 download if you have requested it. This means it is not actually a drive-by install, even if you are determined to use the term to smear Microsoft. (Drive-by installs are not requested and are usually from websites.)
This isn't true, and I'm frankly amazed you don't realize that it it's not true.
Microsoft is giving consumers a free upgrade to Windows 10 if they have already paid for Windows 7 or 8. This is no different from Apple or Google giving away OS upgrades to people who have already paid for the product in the same way as Windows users (bundled with hardware).
Yeah, and by the same pretend "logic", Apple and Google don't have operating systems they could get people to pay for either.
The business model hasn't changed. OEMs pay to install Windows 10, exactly like every other version of Windows. Microsoft is still in the software business, not, like Google, the surveillance-and-advertising business.
You're welcome to your conspiracy theories, of course. However, perhaps it would be better if you didn't try to support them with facts, because you don't appear to be able to get them correct ;-)
Claiming that Microsoft is not in the surveillance-and-advertising business is rather facetious. Of course they are! Or .. why else are they harvesting absolutely everything they can possibly find out about me, from the moment the install is completed, until the final day when I uncover the secret options that turns it all off? If they weren't in the surveillance-and-advertising business, none of the spy options would be default to "On" ..
It's not its main business, by a very long way. It is, however, Google's main business, and the main business of quite a few free Android and iOS apps.
So you did an Express install instead of actually going through the options? More fool you.
Actually I cancelled my upgrade. I'll sit this one out until it makes sense to actually do the upgrade - at the moment, I'm not seeing any benefit to be had in doing it, and a lot of liability.
Yep, there's no need to rush. I didn't reserve upgrades on my main machines, just on one spare one to see how it works. And to play with Cortana....
"It's not a compelling product they can get people to pay for, unlike all previous versions of Windows."
I don't think Windows has been a compelling product people pay for since Windows 95 (or just maybe XP). How many home users specifically go out of their way to buy Windows? IME most people use whichever version of Windows comes with their computer when they buy it, and only change versions when they buy a new computer. So the people who are getting a Windows 10 upgrade for free are mostly people who wouldn't have bought it anyway.