I see lots of hate about Win10... I must say that I have W10, since it came out... had few problems at the beginning, but with their so called "Treshold 2" version I am not having any issues (except when I am recording I get sometimes BSOD'ed, but I suspect my CPU or GFX, because its acting wierdly ever since (I think I kinda killed my CPU, because the fan didn't had too much thermal paste and the temepratures of it went up to 110 degrees celsius...)
So from my point of view as a user and also as IT Technician, I prefer W10 over other versions.
It's not hate really; at least not for me. It is informed consumer choice. Microsoft has made a stance I don't agree with, so I won't use the product and by extension; because I am the households network administrator, I will not allow it in my house. It doesn't matter to me if it works better then prior versions.
This
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85).aspx#BKMK_UTC_Full is enough for me to not use the OS at all, ever.
EXCERPT (Full telemetry level):
However, before more info is gathered, Microsoft’s privacy governance team, including privacy and other subject matter experts, must approve the diagnostics request made by a Microsoft engineer. If the request is approved, Microsoft engineers can use the following capabilities to get the information:
- Ability to run a limited, pre-approved list of Microsoft certified diagnostic tools, such as msinfo32.exe, powercfg.exe, and dxdiag.exe.
- Ability to get registry keys.
- Ability to gather user content, such as documents, if they might have been the trigger for the issue.
So, Microsoft, at there sole discretion, can run programs on and retrieve documents from my machine for analysis, inspection and usage in further debugging. When I first read that, I was at a loss for words. It is truly shocking (to me).
Full telemetry level is the default for new installations; including upgrades. Additionally, the only way to turn it off; lower then basic level, is to use the enterprise version. Updates have been known to reset these levels after they have been changed as well (could have been a bug):
http://www.cio-today.com/article/index.php?story_id=13000FY960TW
Additionally, the heavy handed upgrade approach has rubbed me the wrong way. It downloads roughly 3GB in he background in prep for the upgrade which really sucks for people on metered connections (some of my family), it installs nag apps to bug you about it continuously, and updates changed registry settings that had disabled said nag app. Oh, and, all of this has been ported to Win8, 8.1 and 7; uggg. It's just not for me, but to each there own.
DISCLAIMER: I am a principle systems administrator, and have been for about a decade. In that time I have had control over, and been responsible for, thousands of servers. I take security exceptionally seriously and am very cautious as to the data I let leave my control.
