They are glowing reviews.
Have you asked yourself how a company that could build such a "horrifc" operating system like Windows 8/8.1 could suddenly come out with the greatest thing since sliced cheese?
Well, now let's deal with the world of reality.
Windows 8/8.1 were not "horrific" and Windows 10 sucks.
Those who read this blog know that I am rarely impressed with new things and seek to find the weakness of everything I try. I have never been in the "in crowd" and have marched to my own drummer.
Back when Windows 8 was in beta testing, I signed up. I had heard the early reports that this system was a disaster and wanted to be able to see for myself if it was as awful as it was said to be. Nothing like piling on and kicking a dead horse so to speak. After installing Windows 8 beta on a spare laptop, I was shocked to find that the operating system wasn't half bad. It booted and stopped far faster than the boat anchor Windows 7 which is glacial at times (after all, it is Windows Vista with frosting).
Yes, Windows 8 had those live tiles. But along the way of the Windows 8 beta test came an early version of a free app, Classic Shell, that said it could give you back your start menu FOR FREE. I installed this "app" just like any asswipe with a smartphone can do these days, and presto! Windows 8 booted to desktop, had a real start menu, and those live tiles could be accessed going to the right side as usual with Windows 8. What I was not prepared for was that Windows 8 was far faster than Windows 7 at just about every task.
I was hooked. I became one of the ten people in the world who learned to love Windows 8. And when the upgrade of Windows 8.1 was launched, this OS became blazing fast even on old systems and could boot within 10-12 seconds from power button to lock screen - something you could never do in Windows 7 or earlier operating systems. IMHO Windows 8.1 is the best operating system ever conceived - but then again, I am not a mind-numbed robot who is fooled by so-called journalists.
And now we have Windows 10. And yes, I am beta testing this mongrel of an operating system and have loathed every minute of this grand disaster.
The best way to describe Windows 10 is that a group of computer operating system designers sat around drinking beer and decided to just throw Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 into a blender and whatever came out was to be called Windows 10. This is one of the least intuitive operating systems I have used and it operates slower at boot than 8.1 and about as fast the rest of the time.
The start screen combines all of those tiles everyone (but me) hated into a fake start menu that makes you search for menus and even then the menus are not as you are used to. They are alphabetized by no purpose or function. Live tiles aren't organized in any particular fashion that I could see and scroll up and down, not side to side. I got the side to side thing -the up and down was useless to me. It was just a lot of scrolling for nothing.
Then Windows 10 hides things and removes the preview function off of your porn image galleries. You can't right click and get preview and then the slideshow. That's gone. I also noted that if you are burning a data dvd to back up your porn stash, there is no way to find out how much space is left on the dvd you are burning unless you right click on the dvd to the left. I tried. I figured some status bar wasn't enabled. After half an hour I gave up. I just learned that new is not better - you just have to compensate. I went back to my Windows 8.1 machine and just had a blast being able to preview and to check DVD available space right there at the bottom of the screen. Who knew?
I heard one of the most disturbing reports from competent computer radio shows about the privacy concerns about Windows 10 - apparently the installation allows "express" or "custom" setting and the "express" EULA agreement (End User License Agreement) has it set up as a default that Microsoft has the ability and permission by you accepting the agreement, if notified or it finds out you are pirating software or have ill-gotten anything, that Microsoft can then monitor your computer for further investigation to authorities. Typically I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but the experts did a much better job explaining the whats and wheres of this potential issue. The recommendation was to install Windows 10 under "customize" option and then to check and uncheck boxes and to read everything.
I absolutely hate Windows 10 - I am waiting for my beta machine to start making me reboot every few hours and then I'll pull the test hard drive out, put in a new one, and install Windows 8.1 in that machine and use it as a backup system.
Windows 10 is not even good, friends. You are better off installing 8.1 and then installing Classic Shell for free and having a damned blazing fast Windows 7 with live tiles when you want them.
If you have installed Windows 10, I hope you get what you deserve. Being conned into thinking something is great to find out later you've been trapped in the new Windows annual subscription business model is bad enough - you've been sold a worthless operating system as well.
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