ThorChild: 'Windows 10 Is Quietly Sharing Your WiFi Password':

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/07/28/windows-10-wifi-sharing/

amrit9037: Let other lab rats try it first.
Btw Windows 10 quietly share your WiFi password by default (and MS says not to worry!).

mike_cesara: Microsoft wants $1.49 a month to remove the ads it shows inside Solitaire on Windows 10

Pheace: Wow, 1.49 lifetime, perhaps, if I cared about solitaire, but monthly? xD

Lin545: Congratulations.

Here is my small story. But please no flamewars or thread derailing. My first Windows was 3.11, last one - Vista. Switched to Linux in 2008 and have not been looking back, for many many reasons. Last XP install was gone 2013, because open radeon driver has finally reached OpenGL3. I do have a lot of win32 games, but all of them run natively via Wine. Of course, at start I used nvidia cards and driver - those are usually non-problematic, but fully closed.

In 2008 reason for switch was Paladium/TPM. But I do still keep an eye whats going on and have not missed anything. Still closed source and nasty, no support for good filesystems (data journaling? bit-rot protection?), execute-everything policy, application windows are not allowed to cross physical screen, no virtual desktops (did appear in 2014), metro thing, destruction of nokia, intrusive licensing.

So,.. I don't understand today what are windows buyers actually paying for? It runs legacy software much worse than Wine or Dosbox. It consumes a lot of memory and disk space. Its vulnerable and offers no real advantages.

Sure, Linux stores configuration in text-files. But is it really worse than a registry with exactly same text content, but just packed into database? Nope.

DirectX? Worst thing ever - a console-like lock down, laugh on the name of what is "Personal Computer". And hence then lots of similar efforts. There is some improvement though, with .NET being free software, but I really doubt it will truly aiming to become some standart. Speaking of standards - Silverlight (making Flash look innocent), DOCX, PCs waking up in the middle of the night for updates, and updates taking 30 reboots.
And people are still grabbing the bait. Windows is perfectly the opposite of what GOG is. Funny, because Steam pretty much matches Windows policy, but decided to go with Debian. I mean, oh yay, Windows will be Rolling Distribution, like - Debian, since - forever.

Well, congratulations with "new" release, guys.

mike_cesara: Could be just a beginning ; )

mike_cesara: Could be just a beginning ; )

mike_cesara: Could be just a beginning ; )

Johnathanamz: Windows is just better than Linux.

OpenGL sucks actually. It has a lot of cruft. Vulkan is going to also suck, but not as bad as OpenGL.

DirectX is just better.

Elenarie: You'd be doing many people a favour if you don't spread retarded articles, and instead link to well educated and document referenced articles.
Elenarie: What I said.

ThorChild: Ok well if you are snobbish about RPS, what about Techrepublic? and this article links to many other professional tech blogs on the concerns over the current security set up for windows 10:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10s-wi-fi-sense-draws-security-concerns-and-questions/?s_cid=e064&ttag=e064