Learn to read dude. I said "for OTHER software to change the default program" not that if you particularly can or not. Also I am calling about the things that were discussed many times here and all over the internet. But you obviously have not heard any of them and think I have no sense??? Try harder next time.
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Learn to read dude. I said "for OTHER software to change the default program" not that if you particularly can or not. Also I am calling about the things that were discussed many times here and all over the internet. But you obviously have not heard any of them and think I have no sense??? Try harder next time.
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Wait, you liked it when other programs had the ability to change defaults? Hell, that is one thing I like about Windows 10 because it makes dealing with family computers easy, I set the defaults and they stay. And again, the "keylogger" is the same damned thing Siri and Google assistants do, they aren't stealing your info they are using it to personalize Cortana and you can turn it off. As for the rest I did say I either have not run into the problems or don't know about them so I can't comment. I try not to speak about things I don't know and try to research, from multiple sources, when trying to find out. I find using only one or two sources can lead to wrong answers.
Reasoning explanation incoming; prepare for long post.
8 and 10 are crap because Microsoft engineered them to sell Windows mobile devices and force a well-stocked Windows store into existence. It's not about the desktop anymore; it's "Mobile first, cloud first."
Virtually everything about 8 was a thinly veiled advertisement for Windows mobile devices. It doesn't make particular sense on the desktop, but it wasn't really meant to. It was about getting people to go buy Windows phones and tablets, since it was already familiar to them from their PC.
From the development end, it was meant to get app devs to take the plunge and write apps for a platform that had few potential customers. It was a chicken-or-egg thing; no one wanted to buy a Windows phone if no apps were available, and no dev wants to write Windows phone apps if there are no customers available. So Microsoft decided to use its desktop dominance to create a market for the Windows Phone apps by allowing them to also run on desktop PCs. Windows 8 was very mobile-oriented, and it was meant to be that way.
Traditional PC users didn't have to love the mobile-centric 8 interface-- they only had to tolerate it. As long as they were there forming a captive market for Windows apps, MS could use them to claim that x million Windows users will be able to download your app today, developers, so get to it!
Microsoft misjudged the resistance to such an absurd OS, though. 8 led to 8.1, which many said was an improvement, but not enough to make 8 catch fire and become the dominant Windows version. As long as there were more people running 7 and even XP than 8/8.1, the promises MS makes to devs about the wisdom of developing for Windows Mobile fell flat, as it would still make much more sense to write for Win32 and get all of the Windows 8 market as well as the far bigger 7 market.
Once MS gave up hope that 8 would ever catch on, the development of another Windows was all but assured. MS said they would learn from the experience with 8, but they didn't learn so much that they abandoned the idea of a converged OS for mobile and desktop. That part was imperative; that was the one thing that was never going to be up for debate. Microsoft is terrified of becoming the next AOL... a former corporate juggernaut that failed to keep up with the times and ended up being nothing. Using the desktop dominance to force a mobile app store into being is mission critical.
So now we have 10. Several years down the road after 8 was first planned, Microsoft is no closer to having a well-stocked mobile app store than they were before. That's why 10 had to be free for home users... they could not take the chance that people would shun 10 the way they shunned 8. They had to reduce the barriers to Win 10 as much as they could, or else they would never be able to convince those app devs that writing for Windows mobile (and thus 10 desktop too!) was a good idea. That's why MS is so desperate to get us all to upgrade. That's why we get adware installed as a Windows update, why they're putting the entire installation for 10 on people's PCs without permission, why they're pushing out 10 as a recommended update, why they're starting the upgrade automatically and asking people if they want to Install Now or Install Tonight, why they're FUDding Windows 7, and why they're crowing about Skylake and Zen not being supported by anything other than 10.
That alone should be reason enough to avoid 10. We should not be rewarding Microsoft for their malevolent behavior.
MS has smoothed out the seams a little bit, but 10 is still a hodge-podge of native Windows and UWP UI elements that look very phone-ish. There's no reason for that except to remind users that they are, in fact, using a hybrid OS that runs on mobile devices too (so why not pick one up now!) It's flat, ugly, and dull, and the "app" looking bits of the OS don't respond to custom themes, so even if you succeed in getting a theme that gets rid of the retina-searing white on white with a side of white, the "app" bits are still their ugly, discordant selves. The tiles in the start menu are similar, turning the entire start menu into a popup ad for Windows Mobile.
Then there are the other ads. First thing I see after a 10 upgrade? An add offering me MS office. Ads in the start menu, ads in the lock screen, ads everywhere. If you want Solitaire back, it's an app now, and it has ads. There's OneDrive in the taskbar and in the navigation panel, even though I don't have that service (it's an ad too).
If you like ads, you're going to love 10.
Then, of course, there is the fact that you can't control updates to your own computer. There are a number of updates I've refused on Windows 7; the "Get Windows X" or GWX adware is one example. I can hide those and go about my business, confident that I will still get all the other updates, including the critical security updates. In 10, there's no official way to blacklist an update, and if you do it by unofficial means, you lose out on all the updates from that point forward, because each one requires the previous to be installed.
Every time you do a Windows update, Windows 10 will go through your programs and uninstall anything it wishes, without asking you for permission. (I saw one thread where it was uninstalling Speccy every time 10 updated. If you search, you'll find all kinds of unwanted uninstalls like this.) It will undo whatever changes you've made to the OS that it wishes; several people have managed to expunge their systems of the unwanted detritus like Cortana, Xbox, etc., only to have them all cheerfully reappear the next time Windows decides to update itself (again, with no supported way of stopping it). Sometimes it will even reset all of your privacy settings back to full promiscuity-- even if you opt out of the Windows spying, it can just put itself back on (not that turning it off really results in all of it being off).
10 allows the user less control over his own system than any other Windows to date. That's why Windows 10 sucks. I don't care if the data slurping is to make things better; I don't want any of that stuff (like Cortana) in the first place. I don't care that novice users are better off not having any choice about updates; they probably won't be astute enough to know the on-by-default auto updates in previous versions can even be turned off. I've heard all of the rhetoric about why I should just stop worrying and learn to love the slurping, but I don't buy any of it. I don't want any of the services that slurping is supposedly improving.
I don't want any of the features of 10 beyond DirectX12 and more years of security updates. That's it. Everything else 10 brings to the table is a detriment, not a selling point. It's a huge step backward compared to Windows 7.
The bottom line is this: When the design goal is something other than excellence on the desktop, we get something other than excellence on the desktop. I have excellence now in the form of 7 (not perfection, but it's pretty good); 10 isn't even close. I have 10 installed on my test PC, and I can't use that for more than a few minutes before I get too annoyed and go back to my main PC with 7.
cliffordcooley
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That would be "TL;DR: nevermind, don't bother reading".@Ascaris You need a "TL;DR" version
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