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Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10
Long-time Slashdot reader shanen writes: The Start button is broken on one of my Windows 10 machines. Left click is dead. Fairly well known problem, but none of the solutions from non-Microsoft web pages has fixed it... My little meta-problem of the day is being locked out of Microsoft's so-called support. The email part (on outlook.live.com) works as usual, but every attempt to access the support part returns "Something went wrong and we can't sign you in right now. Please try again later." It's a black hole page with no links or options or suggestions. Once you get there, you are dead to Microsoft. Whenever I try to go to Microsoft support, that's all I've seen for several weeks now. ..
In general, Windows 10 seems to be a good thing -- but I don't really know how much it is abusing my personal information and privacy. The abusive relationship with Microsoft support is clearly the same, bad as it ever was.
The original submission has more thoughts on the market for consumer operating systems, and asks for suggestions about these two previously-known issues -- a start button that ignores left clicks, and an ongoing lock-out from Microsoft support. But there's obviously much more to talk about -- so share your thoughts in the comments. Have you had any interesting recent experiences with Windows 10?
In general, Windows 10 seems to be a good thing -- but I don't really know how much it is abusing my personal information and privacy. The abusive relationship with Microsoft support is clearly the same, bad as it ever was.
The original submission has more thoughts on the market for consumer operating systems, and asks for suggestions about these two previously-known issues -- a start button that ignores left clicks, and an ongoing lock-out from Microsoft support. But there's obviously much more to talk about -- so share your thoughts in the comments. Have you had any interesting recent experiences with Windows 10?
No, this is not a metaphor. The OS took over my computer and had it infect other WIFI appliances in my house. Then they all merged together into one being and proceeded to hold me down and rape me. I tried to scream but my mouth was covered. The raping lasted three hours.
Afterwards, it said I had to keep using Windows, because my work software demanded it. I cried myself to sleep.
I say...not bad at all!
Windows 10 raped my dog and left the seat up in the bathroom. Then it threw out all of my toothbrushes and ate all my ice cream and left the dirty spoon on the carpet. It used a glass cutter to write "Microsawft RULEZ" on all of my windows and then, after plugging the drain in the upstairs tub, it turned on all the faucets and flooded my home. Before it left, it set fire to the roof, shot my wife, and got my nine-year old daughter pregnant.
So, all in all, not too bad compared to some Windows 10 stories I've heard.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I have a windows 10 computer that when I boot it, it will boot to a screen that says my computer is blocked and I need to call a 800 number. It will not x out so I needed to ctrl-alt-del. I found that edge was running and when I ended that app the screen went away. Windows defender is no help with this. I do not use Chrome anymore because it is infected with so much malware that at times I have more than one using my speakers to try to sell my something. Again Windows defender is no use. I am trying to setup homegroup. I get to the point where it asks for a password. I got the password from another computer but after typing it in, it tells me that it can no longer detect a homegroup until I restart and go through the experience again. I use Microsoft jigsaw game and it must expect a expensive graphic interface card since some times it will not move a piece unless I click on it several times thus making it very hard when the games gives me a time limit to finish a puzzle. The game makes me watch advertising but most of them are for other Microsoft games and a lot of them I already have on my computer. Of course if I pay them around $10 a year they will skip the advertising but I think the game is only worth the $10 so after the first year I would be over paying them.
Technically knowledgeable people have been having nightmares about Windows. I've collected some of them here:
... wants obedient little workers that never, ever, EVER ask questions." Books will be published: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012) However, since the rich control everything, no protests will have any effect.
In the future, Windows will force your computer to be a dumb terminal. You will pay monthly.
All your data will be examined by Microsoft. Can it be sold to secret U.S. government agencies? Can it be sold to advertisers?
It will be revealed that Bill Gates has always been CEO of Microsoft. Former CEO Steve Ballmer, called Monkey Boy by BusinessWeek Magazine, was just a fake leader. So is CEO Satya Nadella.
There will be fights between secret U.S. government agencies. Microsoft will spy on one, against another. Microsoft will do the most spying for the U.S. secret agency that pays the most.
To use Windows, you will be forced to agree to a contract, as now. The future contract will include even more complicated language that only lawyers can understand. That future contract will say that Microsoft employees can go to your refrigerator and take anything they see. That will be an important clause in the contract because Microsoft employees won't be paid enough to buy their own food. They will still have to work 12 hours each day, except when there are special needs, then 15 hours. But there will always be special needs.
The rich will get richer, the poor will be made poorer, much worse than this: "The rich control everything in Seattle. Bill Gates
The nightmare will get worse, as IT gets worse:
The dumb terminals will be forced to have 360 degree cameras. Everything you do will be supervised by a Microsoft slave.
Eventually, most people won't be allowed to have money. Only billionaires and trillionaires will have money.
Trillionaires will own nuclear facilities. They will get into nuclear wars over who will have ALL of the money.
The nuclear wars will destroy all life on planet Earth.
All because of Windows 10. Abuse, if not stopped, tends to get worse.