hedwards: In order to encourage people to update to 10, they've been backporting that garbage to 7 and 8.
I leave the link from my post because I think it is really a positive example of benefit of specialized journalism to a layman!
Probably most anyone would ideally want to have control of their privacy, but it is not made easy, nor explicit, in Win 10. It does not necessarily follow it is a bad OS meanwhile, I am not convinced of that yet.
As u know, hedwards, my knowledge of things is "for a dummy" in many things, thence I quite value that series! :-)
So care to explain: what do you mean by "backporting" here?
Neutrally, if you please, and negatively, also - if applicable, for a layman sort, gaming interested PC user, that is neutral about Windows (or Microsoft OS).
hedwards: In order to encourage people to update to 10, they've been backporting that garbage to 7 and 8.
timppu: Microsoft pushed UEFI/SecureBoot to PCs so that "unsecure" OSes (like various Linux distros and other non-Windows OSes) are harder to install, and in the future can't possibly be installed at all anymore as MS seems to be now dropping the PC vendor requirement for the ability to disable SecureBoot in case it causes problems. After that, only MS-approved OSes can be installed, I guess?
Oh, but that stupid restriction that you can have only max 256 items in your Start menu... WTF?
But would your first remark not just vitalize Apple fanciers (my default assumption is that if Windows can be booted on their HW, anything can) or OS free HW suppliers?
Okei, Microsoft made an agreeable blunder with mobile devices acquisition (at least, from Finnish perspective) - but I cannot imagine they are quite so cocksure as being operating system monopoly? I would rather find that portability would be a more conciliatory and better business policy, surely?