Windows 10 forced upgrade

I am hoping that when it dawns on someone suitably high up (or customers start asking awkard questions) they will stump up the £25K or so it will cost to get a line put in :-/

Just saying, funny how things turn around. First paragraph, impeding broadband, sympathetic to BBC interests. Second paragraph promoting broadband and antagonistic to BBC. Capiche?

Simple solution,

Openreach raises its prices to fund the FULL rollout and charges the hangers on like Talk Talk a further premium, then wait for all the squeals.

As for BT Profits, which "Insurance" company/Fund Manager is your pension with? That's where a lot of the profits go. Decapitate BT and guess who will be suffering?

Edited By KWIL on 21/07/2016 16:39:36

I can't see that the BBC had anything to do with it either especially as they wanted US companies to do it and they provided TV including none UK sourced. Just so called anti competitive aspects as no one else could do or rather would do it on the same scale. Having had early TV I can also state that the transmission standard was crap. When the cable broke I plugged the aerial back into the TV - I was pretty gob smacked by the improvement in quality.

Also just an extension of the same sort of thing that finished TSR II and a number of other things especially in the high tech electronics area.

The competitive aspects of broadband in the UK are pretty disgusting under a free market anyway. Long term customers paying for cheap introductory rates and none offer a sensible switch over policy. I've been using the internet for longer than most. Being in B'ham helped, 2nd to get not long after London. For mail I used MSN. When I switched they carried on providing my mail service for over 6 months.

John

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I see they have now started a countdown timer on the WIN10 page, some 3 days and 8 hrs or so to go.

Are they trying to intimidate us?

Clive

Be afraid... be ve-ry afraid....

woooooooooooo.....

Well I've done the dirty deed; finally succumbed to installing W10 on Monday. spent Mon/ Tues. evening, moving things around, switching off useless apps as per Computer Active / Web User mags' suggestions ( usual disclaimer ) so far so good... then all of a sudden I've got music playing in the background, had to switch browser off to clear it, must be some ad music, is this the sign of things to come... has anyone else who has installed W10 had this situation crop up, & resolved it?

George

I had the music in the background a few times. It appears to be the new media player included with W10, which keeps playing tunes to get you to have a look at the new 'features'.

I finally opened it and disabled everything I could find and have not had it happen again.

Andy

Mark - look HERE

My wife has it on her pc - works OK - she upgraded from Win 8.

I had Win 7 but have since ( due to constant harassment from my kids and grandkids) converted to Apple !

Norman

Edited By NJH on 27/07/2016 14:29:24

Good Man, you know it makes sense!

Support, I believe Microsoft ended mainstream support for W7 last year and will end extended support in 2020 so you are becoming more vulnerable to attack.

John

You don't suffer attacks if you don't go on line with unsupported versions of windows, I use several older versions of windows to run various programs, but use Linux to go on line. It can be slightly inconvenient if I need to transfer downloads, but memory sticks (aka thumb drives) are wonderful things.

That's almost exactly what I do, I have an old XP machine which runs Autocad and Inventor and is never connected to the internet, 99.9% of my internet use is on my Linux PC which I've had for 3 years, but for the odd program which needs Windows such as my Garmin map updates I have bought a second hand W10 laptop which runs fine, I've never had Vista, W7 or W8.

John

Contrary to common belief, security updates are still available for XP. Apart from that, I still have an XP machine (or two) that are set up for special purposes which I use to go on line sometimes without feeling paranoid about it. I take the usual reasonable precautions (flash, java, javascript only on demand; a healthily large hosts file etc) which I take on all my machines regardless of OS. Apart from that, the XP installations are sufficiently unchanging that I can have a full image backup of the installation including the apps I want. If it did get compromised I'd just restore one of those. Hasn't happened yet.

I don't mess around with usb drives or linux. The XP machines are hooked into my LAN so any data is accessible.

I've never actually liked any version of Windows but must say that XP was the most productive version I've used. Luckily I'm retired now so don't have to use any of Microsofts stuff.

I don't think you'll find many people mess around with Linux, they use it because they think it's better than Windows.

John

I got the impression that folks liked Linux because it was faster than Windows and less likely to be attacked by malware and viruses etc?

"cryptoviral ransomeware"

The idea of not being able to turn Cortana off has finally decided me. Mr Gates can keep his free upgrade, and when he stops supporting W7 I'll go to Linux on anything that connects to the web. I'm already running it on my laptop and it seems fine