Windows 10 reservation notification

[HornetMaX]

NVidia, AMD and Intel all updated their drivers today.

MaX.

[BOBR6 84]

I hope it was okay to add my thoughts as I know I am not welcome here

DD

grow some balls!! I miss your crazy posts 

[Napalm Nick]

Interesting point of note DD.

Scanning over the Steam forums got me wondering about the usual Day 0 problems but people seem to be resolving with the new W10 graphics drivers and game integrity checks. Time will tell. Once you have it all sorted out in a few months (SP1 at least) I will install mine hehe 

[PeterV]

Interesting stuff ,especially the last link.

Windows 10 privacy settings

Opt-Out

[Napalm Nick]

Good links Peter. Most people just tick the 'yeh yeh whatever just hurry up' boxes during the load.

I raised this concern during the Insider Preview to anyone who would listen. I am interested how it goes down in Germany where rules and the public are more savvy with not accepting this stuff. You might remember the 'Origin' saga.

Generally I don't mind the idea of it too much, but the likelihood of the data being compromised/stolen/misused etc is too high to just be complacent about it.

[HornetMaX]

Same infos, with some pics: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/08/windows_10_privacy_problems_here_s_how_bad_they_are_and_how_to_plug_them.single.html

MaX.

[Napalm Nick]

Good one - I didn't know about the WUDO setting (edit: the peer to peer bit). Local network distribution is a good idea though. Think mine will be ON (Local only).

Out of interest:
I took a Windows 8 (upgraded to 8.1) PC to W10 using a fresh install and it doesn't work - IE a Windows 8 key (as opposed to W8.1) key wont activate it (with no option to phone MS). So after loading W10 and failing activation, I had to reload 8, upgrade to 8.1, and upgrade to W10 . Pffff. To do a fresh W10 install now I need to interrogate it to get the new assigned W10 key and reload W10 fresh haha sheesh. Think I will leave that particular PC as 'upgraded'.

[HornetMaX]

Good one - I didn't know about the WUDO setting (edit: the peer to peer bit). Local network distribution is a good idea though. Think mine will be ON (Local only).

Mine will be OFF. I have a network of 1 PC, so ...

Out of interest:
I took a Windows 8 (upgraded to 8.1) PC to W10 using a fresh install and it doesn't work - IE a Windows 8 key (as opposed to W8.1) key wont activate it. So after loading W10 and failing activation, I had to reload 8, upgrade to 8.1, and upgrade to W10 . Pffff. To do a fresh W10 install now I need to interrogate it to get the new assigned W10 key and reload W10 fresh haha sheesh. Think I will leave that particular PC as 'upgraded'.

Yep, that's "The Way It's Meant to be Played" ...also known as "How to annoy the people that do have a legitimate win7/8 license and push them to install win10 fresh using some easily available and fully working crack". Because on top of forcing the update before a fresh install, your win10 key obtained from your win7/8 key is tied to your hardware: if you swap some of it you will have to contact Microsoft as your key will no longer work (and if you swap your MoBo it's not even sure your key will ever work).

The beauty of it is that the idea behind is that your original win7/8 key will be deactivated (making the rollback to win7/8, which is possible only within 1 month, risky and cumbersome). Typical Microsoft over-complicated mess. Instead of blabbing about free upgrades, put a reasonable price for retail copies (e.g. 50E) that allow the customer to do whatever he wants: update, fresh install or whatever.

In the end, another nice idea (pushing people to win10 giving it around for free or little) completely fucked by stupid marketing all over the place.

Most likely, I'll go with the crack, even if I could just update my current win7, because I want my win7 and win10 to run in parallel for a while.
If that's not a fail on their side I don't know what else is ...

MaX.

[Napalm Nick]

Agree. Didn't know about the 1 month roll-back limit though 

Gargh there goes the Vista/W7 upgrade exploit lol.  Operating systems should be free FFS there's still plenty of crap to purchase in the MS store lol.

Linux Mint forever.

[WALKEN]

Linux!

[Napalm Nick]

To go with Peters OPT OUT link here is another good one from their very recently amended privacy policy/T&Cs:

Microsoft Account | Privacy

[matty0l215]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJCiqiENgjw

An alright video explaining Windows 10. Might be worth a watch if anyone's on the fence.

[WALKEN]

If anyone is so worried about collection of data then "Google" may not be the best search engine for you, forget windows10, lol

  https://duckduckgo.com/

[HornetMaX]

If anyone is so worried about collection of data then "Google" may not be the best search engine for you, forget windows10, lol

True but it's a weak argument. First, google is not an OS (nt for PC at least), second they make it very explicit that they will use your data and it's kind of expected from them (once yuu know their business model). And google actually gives you stuff "for free". Last, the low-blow of changing the default browser and search engine (to edge and bing) is borderline pathetic ... yawn ...

MaX.

[h106frp]

It will be interesting top see what the corporate and government desktop stance will be with all the data tracking issues. Most companies will not like the idea that their systems data can potentially be harvested by a third party. I am assuming that MS have forced openings in any installed firewall software or will a third party firewall put a stop to it?