Win 10 up-date!

[hansangb]

I wish MS had a paid version of W10 that didn't have all the eavesdropping functions. But alas, very very few probably would have taken up on the offer.

 

But some people worried about privacy (not directed at you ZimmerDylan) have no issues with posting every detail of their daily activity on social media. It's the oddest thing.

[Zimmerdylan]

I wish MS had a paid version of W10 that didn't have all the eavesdropping functions. But alas, very very few probably would have taken up on the offer.

 

But some people worried about privacy (not directed at you ZimmerDylan) have no issues with posting every detail of their daily activity on social media. It's the oddest thing.

 

 

You hit the nail on the head exactly. I have a professional Facebook where I post my business stuff, but it's not under my real name. I will never otherwise post there or read any of the insanity that gets posted there.

It's not exactly privacy that I personally am after. It's the fact that Microsoft is selling info on me to anyone wishing to use me as a marketing tool. I do not appreciate that. If they used their spyware in a constructive way, I could see it not being a problem. I go to great lengths to keep my info out of the wrong hands. A prime example is that my wife gets on average, 20 spam emails a day. I have a total of 13 spam emails in my spam folder and those are from the past year. But I am very careful where I go and what I do on the internet. This forum is about as personal as I ever get on the internet. And that's pretty funny as in some circles I am very well known and by all rights I should be getting a lot more flaky media stuff, and junk via the internet. But my wife far exceeds me in junk, and spam attacks. She's still running Windows 8...lol.

As for having to lose DCS over Windows VS Apple. I will probably keep a computer just for gaming and have Windows on it. I have always wanted to try building a gaming rig. It's not overly expensive these days and I think it's a cool thing to try out. But I will wait until this dinosaur I'm using gives out. I'll then just get a Mac and start building a gaming rig with Windows that will only be used for DCS and the other sims that I have. The only thing keeping me from doing it just now is laziness. I have a LOT of software that will have to be switched over because I use my computer for my work and its all pretty expensive and time consuming to get switched over.

[Hawkeye60]

You hit the nail on the head exactly. I have a professional Facebook where I post my business stuff, but it's not under my real name. I will never otherwise post there or read any of the insanity that gets posted there.

It's not exactly privacy that I personally am after. It's the fact that Microsoft is selling info on me to anyone wishing to use me as a marketing tool. I do not appreciate that. If they used their spyware in a constructive way, I could see it not being a problem. I go to great lengths to keep my info out of the wrong hands. A prime example is that my wife gets on average, 20 spam emails a day. I have a total of 13 spam emails in my spam folder and those are from the past year. But I am very careful where I go and what I do on the internet. This forum is about as personal as I ever get on the internet. And that's pretty funny as in some circles I am very well known and by all rights I should be getting a lot more flaky media stuff, and junk via the internet. But my wife far exceeds me in junk, and spam attacks. She's still running Windows 8...lol.

As for having to lose DCS over Windows VS Apple. I will probably keep a computer just for gaming and have Windows on it. I have always wanted to try building a gaming rig. It's not overly expensive these days and I think it's a cool thing to try out. But I will wait until this dinosaur I'm using gives out. I'll then just get a Mac and start building a gaming rig with Windows that will only be used for DCS and the other sims that I have. The only thing keeping me from doing it just now is laziness. I have a LOT of software that will have to be switched over because I use my computer for my work and its all pretty expensive and time consuming to get switched over.

Thanks! :thumbup:

 

This is a very sensible solution to this issue.

 

I still have time to revert but will run this a few more days.

There are a few things I do not like about it so far.

Decision pending.................

 

So, Have one machine for DCS and other Rift stuff. Running Win 10.

Only connected to internet when updating software.

Not used for normal browsing or e-mail.

 

Second Machine for everything else running win 7 64bit.

 

Unfortunately, most people can not afford two machines.

 

The solution?

 

Duel boot!

 

Both win 7 and win 10 on the same machine!

Select-able from a boot menu.

I have a machine that duel boots Xp and Win 7.

 

The only issue I found was the restore points would get deleted in Win 7 after booting into Xp. There is a work around for this though.

 

Anyone have a duel boot pc with both 7 and 10?

[Radial9]

Over 85% of WannaCry ransomware victims were Win7 users. Everything has a price. It's going to get MUCH worse before it gets better.

 

"You will be assimilated..."

BillGatus of Borg

[BitMaster]

...and the last one that still haunts us is NOT limited to win7, it affects Vista to 10 and servers from 2008 to 2016, at least,

 

The assumption Win10 is more secure is only as valid as the trojan that targets you wants it to be.

 

What is true is that Win10 takes again a better approach towards securing the base OS but Windows remains Windows with users usually running their machines as admins. That is a BAD start and the reason why windows is one of the easier targets. Privilege escalation haunts all OS's somewhere...just for Windows Clients you dont even need to escalate, it already won the jackpot when it hit the machine with a user logged in as admin. The UAC is such a nasty thing that many, incl.me, have it turned OFF. MacOS does this a lot better, so does Linux.