"10"
is a 1979 film starring Bo Derek and Dudley Moore.
A
guy having a mid-life crisis sees Bo and immediately labels
her an "11". He stalks her to Mexico on her honeymoon,
saves her new husband from drowning, and she offers him thank you
sex.
Bo
Derek may have been a "10", maybe an "11", but
Windows 10 is not a "10".
If
you're getting persistant pop-ups to upgrade to Windows 10, here's
why.
By
default Microsoft automatically updates your PC at 3 AM. They
"update" your PC with KB3035883 which is nothing more
than malware. Once infected your PC starts nagging you to
upgrade to Windows 10.
Even
if you ran Update manually you wouldn't know the payload of
KB30358803 because it's a Trojan Horse.
You
can't turn KB30358803 off, you have to remove it just like any
other malware. Or you can live with it, or maybe just give in
and upgrade.
Windows
7 owns 56% of the Windows market for a reason, it runs businesses.
Windows XP has 11%, even as it approaches drinking age, tied with
8.1. Windows ME, Vista, and 8 never reached puberty. 10 is 8 plus
2. Which is about what I give it.
I
sacrificed a PC to the 10 experience, and here are four of the
outcomes.
1)
10 states "everything will be right where you left it",
yet it replaced my Start Menu programs with Candy Crush Soda Saga,
Minecraft, and Solitare. Just like malware.
2)
10 will update your PC whenever it feels like it.
The
choices 7 gave us are gone. You need to be kind of a hacker to stop
10, and then you have to be a hacker again to restart it. If you
remember.
3)
10 comes with Microsoft Edge. Internet Explorer is now a menu
selection in Edge.
Browser
Hijackers direct your searches to the sites they want you to go to
instead of giving you honest results. That's why we remove them.
Edge
hijacks itself, directing your searches to sites Microsoft wants
you to go to.
Edge
lets you draw on things and talk to Cortana.
You
can compare Cortana to Siri if you want. Dan Quayle compared
himself to JFK sparking the legendary quote "Senator,
you're no Jack Kennedy.".
More
importantly than Microsoft shoving 10 down out throats, and the way
they went about it, 10 just isn't a good fit for PCs and especially
not for business.
10
is a cross platform operating system meant to run on PCs and
hand-held devices, that was the goal, and that's a problem.
Tablets, phones, and PCs are different animals. Cross a jack-ass
with a horse and you've got a mule.
One
Size Fits All is great (for souvenir t-shirts), 10 even
resurrected Microsoft Money and packaged it along with Xbox. Or maybe Microsoft learned a lesson from
launching six different versions of 7
Isn't
there a difference between Money and Xbox? Isn't there something between one and six?
Couldn't there be a few choices? Maybe like "Windows 10
Gamers" for gamers, and "Windows 10 Beaners" for
accountants?
Microsoft
malware, Candy Crush Soda Saga, Edge, Cortana, JFK, or not, that's
your call, and that's Cocktail Talk.
