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"... allow the user FULL control..."

Joke: You don't understand Microsoft. Microsoft an ABUSE company, not a software company. "Windows 10 Will No Longer Auto Install Feature Updates Twice a Year" only means they have found other abuses they like better, like forced advertising.

My opinion, shared by many others.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

The links above, live:

Many Windows 10 Users Unable To Connect To Windows Update Service.

Windows 7 Users Who Installed January Update Report Network Issues; Some Say the Update Has Also Incorrectly Flagged Their OS License as 'Not Genuine'.

Windows 10 Will Reserve 7GB of Your Computer's Storage in its Next Major Release So That Big Updates Don't Fail.

Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General

Microsoft Resumes Rollout of Windows 10 Version 1809, Promises Quality Changes.

Microsoft's Problem Isn't How Often it Updates Windows -- It's How It Develops It.

More links to stories showing that Microsoft is VERY poorly managed:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Windows 10 shows you ads while you are trying to work. But, at least at present, you may be able to stop at least some of the advertising: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you, and how to stop them.

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

Bill Gates still manages Microsoft: Two years ago, during a Jan. 17, 2017 discussion with Charlie Rose, Bill Gates said he spends "15 percent" of his time managing Microsoft. I interpreted that to mean that Gates is still extremely involved and very influential. Did Gates want the mess that is Windows 10?

From the transcript at that Charlie Rose web page:

08:42
"Bill Gates: I'm there about 15 percent of the time. And I get to work just on the R and D part, brainstorming with people, thinking, OK, how are we going to take this artificial intelligence and make it understand, help you use your time better. It's a very exciting time in software. There's five companies that are, you know, in a really strong position. Microsoft is leading in some really cool stuff so --"

It seems obvious that Bill Gates still has a huge amount of overall influence on the management of Microsoft, even if he mostly focuses on other subjects.

Microsoft is known for being extremely abusive. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

"Windows 10 Could Automatically Uninstall Buggy Windows Updates."

Judging from past experience, there is probably a hidden reason: Microsoft will have even MORE control over customer's computers. That will make "buggy updates" financially important to Microsoft. Microsoft wants permission not only to install software, Microsoft wants full control, apparently.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

My understanding: Microsoft is an EXTREMELY poorly-managed company. I think much more attention should be given to that.

Microsoft trash talks Windows 10 LTSC -- again (Dec. 5, 2018)

Microsoft scrambles to limit PR damage over abusive AI bot Tay. (Nov. 30, 2017)

Guess what country sued Microsoft over abusive user data collection! -- Brazil (Apr. 28, 2018) Bad adjective: "beloved" Windows 10.

Apparently the present worsening management began with Ballmer-osis: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

But Microsoft was always abusive, apparently: 'Crush Them': An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley. (May 18, 2018)

Bill Gates still runs Microsoft: Two years ago, during a Jan. 17, 2017 discussion with Charlie Rose, Bill Gates said he spends "15 percent" of his time managing Microsoft. I interpreted that to mean that Gates is still extremely involved and very influential. Did Gates want the mess that is Windows 10?

From the transcript at that Charlie Rose web page:

08:42
"Bill Gates: I'm there about 15 percent of the time. And I get to work just on the R and D part, brainstorming with people, thinking, OK, how are we going to take this artificial intelligence and make it understand, help you use your time better. It's a very exciting time in software. There's five companies that are, you know, in a really strong position. Microsoft is leading in some really cool stuff so --"

It seems obvious that Bill Gates still has a huge amount of overall influence on the management of Microsoft, even if he mostly focuses on other subjects.

Lately, Windows users are not allowed to know what Windows updates actually do. In the past, for example, users were pushed to Windows 10, without giving their permission. So, now Windows 7 customers will be paying for updates that may be abusive.

Some of the many stories about Windows 10 indicate deliberate abuse of customers:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

Having poor quality software makes more money for Microsoft!

Lately, Windows users are not allowed to know what Windows updates actually do. In the past, for example, users were pushed to Windows 10, without giving their permission. So, now Windows 7 customers will be paying for updates that may be abusive.

Some of the many stories about Windows 10 indicate deliberate abuse of customers:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

No. We're still pretty far away from that. 6G is supposed to head towards the terahertz regime: https://www.networkworld.com/a...

Two years ago, during a Jan. 17, 2017 discussion with Charlie Rose, Bill Gates said he spends "15 percent" of his time managing Microsoft. I interpreted that to mean that Gates is still extremely involved and very influential. Did Gates want the mess that is Windows 10?

From the transcript at that Charlie Rose web page:

08:42
"Bill Gates: I'm there about 15 percent of the time. And I get to work just on the R and D part, brainstorming with people, thinking, OK, how are we going to take this artificial intelligence and make it understand, help you use your time better. It's a very exciting time in software. There's five companies that are, you know, in a really strong position. Microsoft is leading in some really cool stuff so --"

It seems obvious that Bill Gates still has a huge amount of overall influence on the management of Microsoft, even if he mostly focuses on other subjects.

Some of the many stories about Windows 10:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

Recall that Huawei isn't just on the US ban-list due to supposed state espionage fears. They've also been accused of stealing intellectual property from Nortel, Cisco, and possibly Motorola (source). It wouldn't be outrageous to assume they have targeted Ericsson, Nokia, or Alcatel-Lucent as well.

Worse, given the opaque relationship between Huawei and the Chinese government, we have no idea how much of that corporate espionage was performed by government teams, an issue the US has been fighting for some time (source), nor how much financial support the government is providing to subsidize pricing.

In short, banning Huawei is probably a good idea for those more mundane reasons alone.

In view of the fact that Huawei spying for the Chinese govt. is so far mostly speculation but that the US has been caught with it's pants down planting backdoors in the equipment of US manufacturers and that we have no idea to what extent these US companies were actually cooperating with the NSA backdooring operations, I'd say that there is a stronger case for banning Nortel, Cisco, Motorola, and friends than there is for banning Huawei. That being said I'm still not willing to trust Huawei even as far as I can throw them.

Recall that Huawei isn't just on the US ban-list due to supposed state espionage fears. They've also been accused of stealing intellectual property from Nortel, Cisco, and possibly Motorola (source). It wouldn't be outrageous to assume they have targeted Ericsson, Nokia, or Alcatel-Lucent as well.

Worse, given the opaque relationship between Huawei and the Chinese government, we have no idea how much of that corporate espionage was performed by government teams, an issue the US has been fighting for some time (source), nor how much financial support the government is providing to subsidize pricing.

In short, banning Huawei is probably a good idea for those more mundane reasons alone.

Scott McNealy: You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

If Privacy is really dead, then Scott should publish his Name, Address, Account Numbers and passwords, location schedule, and DNA profile and always keep them all current. Until then, it's NOT.

It's one thing to lose my credit card number. Annoying, but I can get another. Same for my throw-away online accounts.

It's slightly harder for more important accounts, like my slashdot account -- I'd lose all my Karma standing and have to start over! Other accounts are the same: VERY annoying but not Earth shattering.

Getting doxed - the info used to be in the physical phone book, but now it's easy to tie "a fact" to "someone" and "know where they live." Now bother becomes heightened senses if not outright fear, and possibly having to actually uproot and move. Across the street, across town, across the country.

Now you lose my name and reputation with Identity Theft. Inverse doxing, I'm still me but so is someone ELSE. I _COULD_ change my name, but I don't want to. And it's Hell trying to prove what's actually you and what isn't.

FINALLY, you lose my biometrics? Movie hacker: "Computer: 'Override.' We're in." I _CAN'T_ change those, period. At all.

Just because I have nothing to hide doesn't mean that I want you to see.

ERROR in my parent comment above: I'm tired. I need to take a nap.

There are many ways in which Microsoft is insufficiently managed, also.

I posted this before:

Some of the many, many stories:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

There is no way to justify Microsoft managers operating the company like that. If Microsoft had paid $100,000,000 for negative advertising, it wouldn't have gotten such extremely bad results, in my opinion.

So did significant improvements to HBase, PyTorch, Haxl, PHP compilers, and much more.

And Facebook is inventing sophisticated AI hardware (https://code.fb.com/ml-applications/the-next-step-in-facebook-s-ai-hardware-infrastructure/) including semiconductor design (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3268974/hardware/is-facebook-looking-to-build-its-own-data-center-chips.html). and is the primary contributor to the Open Compute Project's work on more efficient data center hardware (https://www.opencompute.org//

TL/DR: The only reason they are able to invade our privacy that effectively is that they really are an impressive technology company.

"Microsoft is a cloud company, ..."

Cloudy thinking?

Microsoft seems to me to be extremely badly managed. Some of the many, many stories:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

There is no way to justify Microsoft managers operating the company like that. If Microsoft had paid $100,000,000 for negative advertising, it wouldn't have gotten such extremely bad results, in my opinion.

It is my opinion that Microsoft's mis-management and abuse is not reported sufficiently. Joking may help people adjust.

Microsoft is damaging customers and itself.

Some of the many, many stories:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

Microsoft has always been insufficiently and badly managed. But now Microsoft is carrying foolish, self-destructive and other-destructive management much farther than before.

One of the many, many articles:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

A previous comment of mine:

Microsoft is damaging customers and itself. (Oct. 22, 2018)

Forbes does this bullshit. Guess what, I don't care about Forbes anymore.

Your broken business model isn't my problem.

Never let this die:

After demanding that people disable their ad-blocker, Forbes served them up the Angler exploit toolkit https://www.networkworld.com/a...

The article claims it isn't Forbes fault. Well, kindasorta isn't. But Forbes and all other sites using this ad model share in the blame. Fix it so you aren't serving up computer STD's

Mod parent up!! However, that comment may, in some ways, be too kind.

Microsoft is poorly managed? Plenty of evidence.

Microsoft was badly managed 10 years ago.

Microsoft managers lack social ability. They have done ENORMOUS DAMAGE to the Microsoft brand name. That is my best understanding and opinion.

Some of the many, many reports of Microsoft managers thinking they can manipulate and control everyone, as though the managers are government dictators:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

A huge problem: A high percentage of people who work with Windows computers make more money if there are more problems with Microsoft and Windows. There is a conflict of interest.

Apparently Microsoft managers decided they would try to be like Google's Android. They apparently decided to try to gather information about everything, and try to sell that information. Most people with cell phones don't have the technical knowledge necessary to know if they are being abused.

Can a company be sued for supplying computers with Windows 10? If a company supplies Windows 10 computers to businesses and doesn't get a signed agreement from all business customers that the customers know Windows 10 allows Microsoft to gather data from their computers, the supplier could be the target of court cases, and possibly even go to prison. No business customers want Microsoft employees to have access to their company information. My opinion, shared by many others.

People working with desktop computers don't want to be distracted by ads. They don't want to try to learn new, complicated user interfaces.

"microsoft's system of 'ship first-fix later-never test' (SF/FL/NT)"

Microsoft is poorly managed. There is plenty of evidence for that:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

Microsoft is VERY poorly managed, in my opinion. My previous comment: Microsoft managers lack social ability, IMO.

Can you be the target of a court case if you supply Windows 10 computers without getting a signed agreement that the customer knows Microsoft has access to everything on the computers? Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Microsoft managers lack social ability. They have done ENORMOUS DAMAGE to the Microsoft brand name.

Some of the many, many reports of Microsoft managers thinking they can manipulate and control everyone, as though the managers are government dictators:

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

A huge problem: A high percentage of people who work with Windows computers make more money if there are more problems with Microsoft and Windows. There is a conflict of interest.

Apparently, because desktop computer sales are slowing, Microsoft managers decided they would try to make Windows 10 like Google's Android. They apparently decided to try to gather information about everything, and try to sell that information. Most people with cell phones don't have the technical knowledge necessary to know if they are being abused.

Court cases? If a company supplies Windows 10 computers to businesses and doesn't get a signed agreement from all business customers that the customers know Windows 10 allows Microsoft to gather data from their computers, the supplier could be the target of court cases, and possibly even go to prison. No business customers want Microsoft employees to have access to their company information. My opinion, shared by many others.

People working with desktop computers don't want to be distracted by ads. They don't want to try to learn an new, complicated user interfaces.

This comment is my best understanding and opinion.

You said, "The subscription mode proposed by Microsoft is for business customers"

What companies will want to pay more?

Microsoft and Microsoft employees will have full access to everything on every company computer? I don't know of anyone or any company that would allow that.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

From the parent comment: Why did they go out of their way to call this one "free"?

Microsoft has, apparently deliberately, been releasing Windows 10 updates that cause problems.

Apparently, if you pay a monthly fee, in the future Microsoft will remove the problems. Three of the articles:

Microsoft's got a new plan for managing Windows 10 devices for a monthly fee. (July 27, 2018)

Windows 10 Leak Exposes Microsoft's New Monthly Charge. (Aug. 4, 2018) Quote: "Ever since its creation, Microsoft has described Windows 10 as a service. The fear has always been that this meant Microsoft would start charging users a monthly fee to maintain the operating system, and now a new leak has confirmed this is exactly what will happenâ¦"

Windows 10 SHOCK: Is Microsoft about to start CHARGING a monthly fee? Stunning claims made. (Aug. 6, 2018)

Some of the many articles about Windows 10 update problems:

Windows 10 Essential Updates Have Serious Problems (Jan. 10, 2018)

Windows 10 April 2018 Update could break a ton of critical features on your PC (May 3, 2018)

Microsoft Admits July 10 Patches Caused Skype and Exchange Server Problems. (July 18, 2018)

Windows 10 April 2018 Update problems: how to fix them. (Aug. 23, 2018)

This article says that Microsoft should pay users:

Windows 10 update 'fail' -- Microsoft MUST pay out as users still 'plagued with problems' (June 13, 2018) Quote: "Windows 10 users should be compensated after Microsoftâ(TM)s updates have caused havoc with PC owners 'plagued with problems' and some facing huge bills to fix software issues."

Windows 10 is Spyware:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015) Microsoft and Microsoft employees have full access to everything on every computer? I don't know of anyone or any company that should allow that.

2 issues, IMO:

A huge social problem: Conflict of interest. People who do Windows OS support make more money if there are many problems.

Microsoft employees and managers seem to me to lack social ability.

8 reasons why smartphones are privacy nightmare (March 06, 2018)

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015) Microsoft and Microsoft employees have full access to everything on every computer?

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

We no longer have a usable desktop operating system! The Windows OS is spyware. Linux as a desktop operating system has gotten worse every year, not better. Why? Those who develop Linux desktop systems insist on doing their own thing. They don't cooperate.

AMAZING QUOTE from this story of 2 years ago: The number of Linux distributions is declining. "In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285."

Meanwhile, out here in the real world, macOS chugs along, privacy-focused, nary a subscription plan in sight...

  285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285? Quote from a Slashdot comment: "You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem."

  Linux has VERY poor documentation. A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free.

We no longer have a usable desktop operating system! The Windows OS is spyware. Linux as a desktop operating system has gotten worse every year, not better. Why? Those who develop Linux desktop systems insist on doing their own thing. They don't cooperate.

AMAZING QUOTE from this story of 2 years ago: The number of Linux distributions is declining. "In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285."

285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285? Quote from a Slashdot comment: "You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem."

Linux has VERY poor documentation. A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free.

Microsoft is getting ready to replace Windows 10 with the Microsoft Managed Desktop. This will be a "desktop-as-a-service" (DaaS) offering. Instead of owning Windows, you'll "rent" it by the month.

It seems to me that Microsoft managers don't have a reasonable vision of the eventual results of their recent ideas for the future.

If Microsoft tries to charge a monthly fee for an operating system, eventually 1) Nations will all gather together and try to buy Windows from Microsoft. That would be cheaper than paying monthly. Or, 2) Nations will gather together and contribute to ReactOS, a free operating system that runs Windows programs.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015)

We no longer have a usable Windows operating system. We can't go to customers and tell them their computers are not secure from outside access.

Because of the Windows 10 spyware, customers have been delaying buying new equipment.

"All of Windows 10 program is done by India."

Prakesh, that is interesting. Windows 10 has made Microsoft's bad reputation far, far worse, in my opinion.

You also said, "That is why Microsoft has gone to India, because we know that privacy is a problems."

In 2 of your sentences, there are 2 mistakes in your English. That's what we are seeing in Windows 10. There are many, many sloppy bugs.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015)

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.... (March 3, 2016)

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

"... Microsoft fired all of their testers a few years ago?"

Op-Ed: Microsoft layoff e-mail typifies inhuman corporate insensitivity (July 17, 2014)

Microsoft job cuts far worse than rumored, could reach 18,000 (July 17, 2014)

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015)

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.... (March 3, 2016)

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

Those 5 articles are part of a longer history of abuse and other extremely poor management by Microsoft:

Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

As long as windows 10 is spyware, changing to it is not "upgrading" or "modernizing". It's acceptance of abuse.

Many, many people agree with what you said. Microsoft is shockingly self-destructive. A few of the many, many negative articles:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

Ugly problem: Billionaires must spend time deciding what to do with their money.

Who has a better life? A surfer who pays his parents $500 per month to live in their basement, or a billionaire? A serious investigation of all the associated details may sometimes indicate that the surfer has a better life.

Maybe the surfer is not doing anything that is destructive to other people.

Bill Gates said he still manages Microsoft: "I'm there about 15 percent of the time." Even though he is rich, Bill Gates spends his time managing a company that took advantage of technical limits (People can't change operating systems easily.) to abuse people.

Examples of abuse by Microsoft and Bill Gates:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

Abusing people is a really, really ugly life.

"... Windows 10 is useless as an operating system, it's just a toy made by monkeys."

Joke: Yes, Windows 10 is useless. However, the World Huge Association of Monkeys, WHAM!, says you are not sufficiently respectful of monkeys. Monkeys act in their own self-interest.

With Windows 10, Microsoft has been extremely self-destructive. If Microsoft had spent a billion dollars running ads trying to get negative responses from professionals who are knowledgeable about computers, those ads would not have been as effective as Windows 10 at destroying whatever positive thoughts people had about Microsoft.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

This is not correct: You said, "The open source community often would talk about the Bill Gates/Ballmer era tactic of embrace, extend, extinguish, and that's all well and good but neither of those people work at the company now."

Bill Gates said he still manages Microsoft: "I'm there about 15 percent of the time."

Microsoft has become EVEN MORE extremely abusive, in my opinion, and the opinion of many others. Two of many, many examples:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

"If my trust in Microsoft could be quantified it would be a large negative number."

  Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

  7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you

Yes, on Windows 7. Most of our computers aren't running Windows 10.

Many articles say Microsoft and Windows cannot be trusted. Two of those articles: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

And: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

So, it seems to me that Google and Microsoft are, more and more, poorly managed. They are in the abuse business, not in any real business.

Several years ago, I talked with a mid-level Google manager who said that Google had more money than it knew how to manage. Also, that it was difficult for Google employees to know what was happening inside the company.

And Linux: We have 2 computers running Linux. Mostly they don't get used. It is too difficult to deal with all the poorly-documented variations. This story about Linux makes me laugh: Why is the Number of Linux Distros Declining? Linux had 285 variations when that article was published!

Please provide a link. I want to try the Raspberry Pi you recommend.

Only Raspberry Pi computers should connect to the internet? Why Raspberry Pi isn't vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown

Intel CPUs are not safe: Intel reportedly gears up to patch 8 Spectre Next Generation CPU flaws. (May 3, 2018)

Computers running Windows 10 with internet access are not safe. Some of the huge number of shockingly ugly problems with Windows 10:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads.

Years of bugginess: Windows 10 bugs

Problems this year: Windows 10 problems 2018

Update problems this year: Windows 10 update problems 2018

I agree: "Just stop messing with the EXISTING stuff. STOP!" That is one more crazy issue with Windows 10.

Microsoft has become AMAZINGLY wacky. It seems that no one is in control, or even doing any coordinating. Apparently Microsoft wants Windows 10 to copy the abuse of Google's Android. The result is that Microsoft abuses customers and users.

Some of the huge number of stories:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads

Years of bugginess: Windows 10 bugs

Problems, limited to this year: Windows 10 problems 2018

Update problems, limited to this year: Windows 10 update problems 2018

My opinion: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is not capable of managing Microsoft.

Microsoft is apparently competing with other companies, Google and Facebook, to see which can be most abusive. Is Microsoft winning? These articles say yes:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

Sometimes it seems that companies are more involved with abuse than doing healthy business.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

One day there was noise in my kitchen. I went there and saw Bill Gates eating my ice cream. I asked him why he thought it was okay to do that. He said permission to eat my food was on page 89 of the Windows 10 license agreement.

I asked him why a billionaire would want to eat someone else's ice cream. He said it gives him a feeling of superiority.

Also, he said that there is a competition among billionaires to see who can be the most abusive. He still manages Microsoft: "I'm there about 15 percent of the time." The result: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Bill Gates said that Windows 10 spying, putting ads on Windows, making the Windows user interface far worse, forcing updates that are often buggy, and hiding the purpose of the updates makes him confident that he is more abusive than Google and Facebook.

Microsoft is an ABUSIVE company. One of the many examples: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Microsoft top managers don't seem to have the ability to understand that they are being destructive toward their own company.

The CEO is supposed to coordinate everything done by all groups in the company. That isn't happening.

Microsoft has suffered a HUGE LOSS OF RESPECT because of making Windows 10 into spyware.

One of the many, many articles: 17 Windows 10 problems - and how to fix them (Dec. 1, 2017). There have been MANY terrible problems since then. One example: Windows 10 bug: Microsoft fixes issue that broke USB, built-in cameras, keyboards (Mar. 6, 2018)

Do you see any competence in that?

"As part of the reorganization, Rajesh Jha, the executive VP of Microsoft Office products, will be expanding his responsibilities to encompass Myerson's role..."

Apparently Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants people who are as lacking in social, managerial, and technical ability as he is. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is NOT competent. The entire board of directors and top management of Microsoft should be replaced, in my opinion.

One area of extreme incompetence: Somehow, shockingly, managers at Microsoft decided that it is okay to spy on Windows OS computer users in the same way that Google spies on cell phone users using the Android operating system. (One of the many stories about Google spying: Google collects Android users' locations even when location services are disabled.)

Microsoft and Windows cannot be trusted. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Desktop computers users often have a HUGE need for COMPLETE privacy. Microsoft has damaged its already very poor reputation.

One of the MANY articles about Microsoft's EXTREME ABUSE: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you... (You may be able to stop the ads until Microsoft finds other ways to control your computers.) The effect: Microsoft wants companies to pay for Microsoft distracting employees with ads.

Stop linking Forbes shit, they don't deal with adblockers, and in the past have served malware.

Vault 7, WannaCry, Intel AMT breach, CISCO lawful intercept.

Exploiting Lawful Intercept to Wiretap the Internet
Cisco backdoor still open | Network World

ShanghaiBill thinks the NSA must be installing backdoor for sports!

It is important to understand what processors are safe and what processors are affected by Meltdown and Specter's 2 variants.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3246707/data-center/meltdown-and-spectre-how-much-are-arm-and-amd-exposed.html

That article contains errors. In particular, the article claims that AMD processors are "potentially vulnerable to only one of the three variants of Meltdown". This is incorrect for two reasons.

(1) There is only one "variant" of Meltdown. Presumably, the author mistakenly considers Spectre Variant 1 and Spectre Variant 2 to be "variants" of Meltdown.

(2) According to AMD's own statement (which is linked in the article), AMD processors are immune to Meltdown, but vulnerable to both variants of Spectre. But Spectre Variant 1 can be avoided by patching the operating system. After the operating system patch is applied, AMD processors are only vulnerable to Spectre Variant 2.

AMD also says that in 2019 they will begin shipping processors that are immune to Spectre Variant 2.

Exactly. We need complete transparency. Corporate lying destroys credibility, and degrades the quality of the lives of those who engage in it.

The overall story: Microsoft and Windows cannot be trusted. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. And: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

Intel CPUs cannot be trusted: We translated Intel's attempt to spin its way out of the CPU security bug PR nightmare.

Articles about spyware in CPUs

I would be very interested to know the sociology behind Microsoft's adoption of the abusive methods of Google's Android operating system.

Intel and Microsoft are apparently suffering from the symptoms of years of insufficient management.

A Slashdot comment of mine from 11 1/2 years ago: More Intel employees should say in public what they have told me in private: Intel CEO Paul Otellini is not a competent leader. He lacks social ability.

We no longer have a Windows OS we can trust: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. And: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

We no longer have Intel CPUs we can trust: We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare.