Windows 10 upgrade

[think positive]

[Dave The Man]

[What'sinaname]

[Tannin]

It gets worse and worse.

Windows 10 sends identifiable data to Microsoft despite privacy settings

[Dave The Man]

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

thanks for the download links, Tannin. That classic shell is a ripper, so much better than the windows 10 start menu, what an absolute mess that is! Explorer++ is pretty cool, installed that too. Just a heads up on the other one, 'Explorer2', the free 'lite' version is for 32bit only. The 64bit is only offered free as 21 day trial versions of 'professional' and 'ultimate'. Anyone have an old link for XTree Gold?

[Tannin]

[stui magpie]

Cheers for that Classic shell oh Tannic one, I just put that on my daughters windows 8.1 laptop, she utterly hates 8.1.

[HAL]

Can you tell me any gossip?

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

[Tannin]

Windows 10 is blowing people's Internet connections out of the water

Windows 10 "is hitting customers in remote locations with massive bill shocks by blowing out their data caps ..... one Internet user in the Cook Islands has already racked up a $NZ600 Internet bill for the month of August, thanks to Windows 10."

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/fears-windows-10-will-blow-data-caps-20150817-gj0i98.html

[stui magpie]

^

Same reporter also wrote this.

[Tannin]

The tech reporters at major news outlets are nearly always utterly clueless, Stui. Why, I don't know, but it has been the case for as long as I can remember.*

Notice the similarity between the two articles: both simply regurgitate canned statements from some prior source, and do so uncritically.

Now notice the key difference between the two articles: one regurgitates a self-serving Microsoft PR department blurb. The other regurgitates statements from two highly regarded and technically well informed bodies: EFA and ACCAN.

Finally, notice a second differentiator: at the conclusion of the PR puff piece she draws an (ill-informed) conclusion. She does not do so at the end of the more recent article - which is actually good, as she lacks sufficient technical knowledge and experience to be able to draw valid conclusions on technical matters.

Disclaimer: I'm not attacking her in particular. She's clearly not very competent but mainstream press computer journalists seldom are. Quite likely she's better than most of them. There have been a few outstanding exceptions over the years, but they are very rare. If The Age actually wanted to improve the quality of her technical journalism they could second her to do six months work experience alongside me. (Or any other competent working techie with good teaching and communication skills.) There is no substitute for practical, hands-on experience.

* Which is to say for as long as the PC industry has existed. I first became involved with PCs years before there was such a thing as a computer journalist anywhere outside the little-known trade press, and have worked with them for most of the time since then.

[stui magpie]

What the hell, another opinion.

[Culprit]

I will wait for Windows 10B, after they fix the plethora of bugs in Windows 10 and then no need for endless updating. Oh shoot the updating never stops.