Attention How many of you have switched to Windows 10?

[72-Jay]

But if they do an automatic upgrade, I'm screwed. Not only can't my laptop run it, I doubt if the hard drive is big enough to hold it.

Turn off windows update.
Problem solved...for good.

Microsoft = malware.

Yep. it is

Makes me wonder what else they are doing behind our backs.

If I remember right Micro$oft has been putting spyware in windows as far back as Windows 98 (something called 'Alexa'), the difference being, that one was easily removed.
Windows XP has some sorta spyware too, no antivirus/antimalware programs detect it & not sore if it can be removed. Its there though, even with what options can be disabled (including win update), it still Attempts to connect to a couple MS servers.
Windows 7 & 8 both have known spyware (apparently nearly as bad as 10 if certain updates are (automatically) applied)... even without those, there's something, both versions Attempts to connect to various MS servers. What they are trying to send I have no idea, but there is no valid reason for it to EVER be connecting to any MS server.
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Note where I say Attempts above, in most anyone's case, those those "attempts" would simply be "connects". I have them blocked on the network
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Oh and I've seen various posts online saying block the spyware by adding a given list of MS servers to the windows 'hosts' file ... what I guess they don't realize is that, yes doing so will block your access to those sites in any browser but windows itself ignores the 'hosts' file!

I still use Windows XP.
Will xp work for many many more years ?

Yep, it will continue to work. Just make sure you keep your anti-virus/spy/mal-ware up to date.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36367221
Microsoft has faced criticism for changing the pop-up box encouraging Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10.

Clicking the red cross on the right hand corner of the pop-up box now activates the upgrade instead of closing the box.

That's low. Just the kind of move a malware pop-up would do.

Yep that is EXACTLY the type of dirty little trick malware would do.
Click the close button & activate trojan-horse ... which then delivers/installs the malware(also known as Windows 10 )

 

[ChrisJackson]

I'm putting off Windows 10 for as long as possible (eventually we'll ALL have to "upgrade.") Here's just one of the reasons I ain't doing it. It's an excerpt of the Win10 user agreement:

"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to."

If you have Win10, watch what you search for on Google. Be careful what you write & receive in your emails. Be careful of what web sites you visit. And be very careful of what files you have on your hard drives. Make sure MS doesn't have a "good faith belief" to disclose your personal data.

Shit, Windows 10 puts the NSA to shame!

Here's my source:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2956574/microsoft-subnet/windows-10-privacy-spyware-settings-user-agreement.html

I'd go to Linux right now, but I don't know enough about it. I do know it won't run some of my most important programs: Photoshop, Lightroom and a few more.