Every other version of windows is bad

[Agazed]

I'm fine with collecting info for bugs, but it stems far past what you open and how often/your hardware and drivers but rather looks at the contents of files for what reason.

 

The data it collects is anonymous and cannot be traced to your computer.

[AMICLG]

The data it collects is anonymous and cannot be traced to your computer.

And Facebook, Apple, and AT&T don't give data to the NSA.......

[Agazed]

Windows XP was bad

Windows Vista was ok, but still a little bad

Windows 7 was good

Windows 8, I didn't use

Windows 10 is ok.

 

Windows XP was Microsoft's most sold operating system.

[Agazed]

And Facebook, Apple, and AT&T don't give data to the NSA.......

 

Who said Windows 10 gave your data to the NSA? Who said Facebook, Apple, and AT&T don't give your data to the NSA?

[Albatross]

What do you mean? I find Windows 10 pretty good. Spying can be disabled and people shouldn't be worried as it is only used for metrics and collecting data that will help improve Windows. Unless you are doing something illegal I don't think people should be scared.

 

You can't disable it all, actually, and for a lot of people doing so renders their system unusable. You shouldn't have to be spied on in the first place, let alone having to dig through registries to fix that problem.

 

Not caring for privacy because you have "nothing to hide" is like not caring for freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. It is extremely ridiculous to even assert that it doesn't matter if you aren't doing anything illegal. It is like trying to justify taxing someone more because they could afford it—it makes no sense and procreates right violations and human stupidity.

[aajjeee]

im stealing that

[thekeemo]

Mine goes like this

 

Windows 2000 - Good

Windows ME - Bad

Windows XP - Good

Windows Vista - Better

Windows 7 - worse than vista (removed widgets)

Windows 8 - ok

Windows 8.1 - Good

Windows 10 - Good

[terrytek]

 

Mine goes like this

 

Windows 2000 - Good

Windows ME - Bad

Windows XP - Good

Windows Vista - Better

Windows 7 - worse than vista (removed widgets)

Windows 8 - ok

Windows 8.1 - Good

Windows 10 - Good

 

Technically, widgets didn't disappear till windows 8. they said it's a security leak. security leak my ass. i want widgets to work on any os.

[Yummychickenblue]

Windows XP was Microsoft's most sold operating system.

Not according just about every result on Google. Also that list was from personal experience.

 

 

Technically, widgets didn't disappear till windows 8. they said it's a security leak. security leak my ass. i want widgets to work on any os.

 

Widgets officially appeared first in Vista.

[Nowak]

For anyone complaining about Windows 10 privacy.

 

 

The reason why all that "spying" is there is because non-techies want a personalized experience tailored exactly to them. However, they don't seem to realize that in order for this profile to be built, this "spying" has to happen. It seems a lot of people in the tech community has forgotten this as well.

[Agazed]

You can't disable it all, actually, and for a lot of people doing so renders their system unusable. You shouldn't have to be spied on in the first place, let alone having to dig through registries to fix that problem.

 

Not caring for privacy because you have "nothing to hide" is like not caring for freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. It is extremely ridiculous to even assert that it doesn't matter if you aren't doing anything illegal. It is like trying to justify taxing someone more because they could afford it—it makes no sense and procreates right violations and human stupidity.

 

Your data is uploaded anonymously, and cannot be traced to your computer. The data Windows collects is viewed as a whole, like a global census.

 

Windows 8 collected almost the very same data and it only helped for the better. Windows hides all the metrics settings because if people were informed that it collects any type of data from their system, everyone would turn off the settings and ruin the entire goal of metrics.

[Agazed]

Not according just about every result on Google. Also that list was from personal experience.

 

Quoted from Wikipedia:

 

"It is estimated that at least 400 million copies of Windows XP were sold globally within its first five years of availability, and at least one billion copies were sold by April 2014."

 

"In just six months, over 100 million copies had been sold worldwide, increasing to over 630 million licenses by July 2012, and a market share of 60.75% of "desktop operating systems" as of July 2015"

[flibberdipper]

Disagree.

 

98 - Good

NT 4 - wtfbro

2000 - Good

ME - Meh

XP- Good

Vista - Good

7 - Good

8 - Good

10 - Fuck this shit, u suk m8

[Agazed]

Disagree.

 

98 - Good

NT 4 - wtfbro

2000 - Good

ME - Meh

XP- Good

Vista - Good

7 - Good

8 - Good

10 - Fuck this shit, u suk m8

 

Vista had some serious security and performance issues.

 

Windows 8 lacked one of the most important parts of an OS - navigation. 

[Dabombinable]

What about 8.1?

(I fixed it)

 

Windows 2000 - Good

Windows ME - Bad

Windows XP - Good

Windows Vista - Bad

Windows 7 - Good

Windows 8 - Bad

Windows 8.1 - Good.

Windows 10 - Bad

[Agazed]

he's right you know.jpg

 

I bet it would take 2x less time for someone to turn off something as simple as sticky keys in Windows 7 than Windows 8.1.

[Nowak]

What about 8.1?

(I fixed it)

 

Windows 2000 - Good

Windows ME - Bad

Windows XP - Good

Windows Vista - Bad

Windows 7 - Good

Windows 8 - Bad

Windows 8.1 - Good.

Windows 10 - Bad

 

 

Disagree.

 

98 - Good

NT 4 - wtfbro

2000 - Good

ME - Meh

XP- Good

Vista - Good

7 - Good

8 - Good

10 - Fuck this shit, u suk m8

 

 

he's right you know.jpg

Saying that because of the "spying"? Au contraire!

 

 

I'm gonna go against the jerk again. Windows 10 is pretty great. I'd still advise against upgrading until October, though.

 

People also seem to forget that Windows is pretty broken at release, with the only major exception being 7. You guys know how XP is the most successful Windows version ever, right? It was not adopted en masse until 2004, after SP2 came out. Yeah.

[GoodBytes]

Just a weird fact I noticed. Starting at Windows 2000 is seems every other release is bad.

 

Windows 2000 - Good

Windows ME - Bad

Windows XP - Good

Windows Vista - Bad

Windows 7 - Good

Windows 8 - Bad

Windows 10 - Good

 

Anyone else agree?

 

inb4 Windows 11 is horrible

Another day, another same topic talked to death.

 

Windows XP had more problems than Windows 10. It was a super rushed version of Windows, because sales of Windows 2000 was extremely weak, and Me didn't fare well.

It was done in 1 year. It was plagued with BSOD issues, not to mention that XP since day 1 had SERIOUS critical security issues, which made Microsoft stall project Longhorn development (Vista) to work on XP security issues. In addition, Microsoft knew that XP had so bad security and it's NT3 based kernel/OS could no longer be sustained for modern technologies, and security realities of tomorrow (which is yesterday, a great number of  years), that is why they scrap the OS, and restarted from scratch with Project Longhorn, which become 6 years later Vista. As Windows XP was Windows 2000 with a skin, faster boot, compatibility mode, and new help document, and a firewall that alerts you of a software wanted access to the web, after it has accessed it numerous times before, rendering the firewall useless (not to mention that software could add itself to the white list), Windows 2000 faced the same problem, hence why they shared the same updates. So if XP is bad as I am highlighting, Windows 2000 is also bad.

 

Vista was a great OS, but it was made for tomorrows computer. Sure it had bugs that were not there before, something that happens when you recode everything from scratch, pretty much.

Microsoft mistake was to push lower specs system requirement from what it actually needed. Either due to the pressure of shareholder to have sales after 6 years in the works, and billions spent, or manufactures wanted to continue to take advantage of the consumers by selling over priced hardware, and satisfy budget oriented consumers, instead of just having XP for lower end systems, and Vista for proper specs systems. It would have been odd, but at least it would have worked. Not to mention that many people installed Vista on their system with too low specs. Vista biggest problem was that manufactures decided to push new hardware for Vista support. You wanted Vista drivers? Buy new hardware and peripheral. Luckily, not all hardware manufacture were like this, but the big ones like HP, Creative Labs, and many others, did. Only to see after months later that people switch hardware and put their company in their blacklist, and since back tracked in doing this business model.

Only tech savy people could manage to go around it, by finding the "new" product the manufacture was pushing which was the identical product that the person had, just a different look essentially, and install those drivers instead. So it all piled up, and people blamed Vista.

 

Windows 7, is Vista. Just more bug fixes from Vista latest service pack and latest updates, and optimization. You saying that you liked Windows 7 but not Vista, shows that Vista was not bad actually. Sure it brought new features, of course it will, but it is still Vista, much like Windows 8, and 10.

 

If you find Windows 10 good, then you never tried Windows 8. As, from the end user perspective, it has nothing much really new compared to the massive collection of features that Windows 8 brought over Windows 7. Sure you have Cortana, and Microsoft own implementation of multiple desktop (as the APIs existed since Windows NT4 days, possibly even before, hence how you had these third party software), not to mention that Microsoft made a XP add-on with one. Edge web browser, Action Center, updated apps, and a few tweaks here and there on the interface essentially. I know there is a lot more, but I am just saying at a end user perspective, and not the back end stuff which is major.

[Agazed]

Saying that because of the "spying"? Au contraire!

 

 

I'm gonna go against the jerk again. Windows 10 is pretty great. I'd still advise against upgrading until October, though.

 

People also seem to forget that Windows is pretty broken at release, with the only major exception being 7. You guys know how XP is the most successful Windows version ever, right? It was not adapted en masse until 2004, after SP2 came out. Yeah.

 

Finally someone that gets it. Thought people like you didn't exist on this forum.

[Nowak]

Finally someone that gets it. Thought people like you didn't exist on this forum.

Been fighting against the jerk since day 1 of the Windows 10 privacy scare!

[Yummychickenblue]

Quoted from Wikipedia:

 

"It is estimated that at least 400 million copies of Windows XP were sold globally within its first five years of availability, and at least one billion copies were sold by April 2014."

 

"In just six months, over 100 million copies had been sold worldwide, increasing to over 630 million licenses by July 2012, and a market share of 60.75% of "desktop operating systems" as of July 2015"

I think you need to check your data. Every source I've seen (including the Wikipedia page for Windows XP) says that, as of July 2015, Windows XP only has an 11.75% market share.

[Dabombinable]

Saying that because of the "spying"? Au contraire!

 

 

I'm gonna go against the jerk again. Windows 10 is pretty great. I'd still advise against upgrading until October, though.

 

People also seem to forget that Windows is pretty broken at release, with the only major exception being 7. You guys know how XP is the most successful Windows version ever, right? It was not adopted en masse until 2004, after SP2 came out. Yeah.

Lol, we were referring to the way every second Microsoft OS is bad. Oh and if you think privacy isn't important-you are just part of the problem.

[Nowak]

Lol, we were referring to the way every second Microsoft OS is bad. Oh and if you think privacy isn't important-you are just part of the problem.

I'm not part of the problem. I've disabled basically all of the "spying" shit and have extensively monitored my network traffic since then. I have yet to find anything seriously suspicious.

 

There has been a lot of FUD going around about Windows 10. Yeah, it's not perfect by any stretch of the means. Nothing ever will be, not even the magical Linux that everyone loves alluva sudden. But it's nowhere near as shit as the circlejerk wants people to believe. Hell, this has been going on since Windows XP, why is it a problem now, 14 years later?!

[BuckGup]

Yes people have know this pattern for years and there is no windows 11

[Albatross]

Your data is uploaded anonymously, and cannot be traced to your computer. The data Windows collects is viewed as a whole, like a global census.

 

Windows 8 collected almost the very same data and it only helped for the better. Windows hides all the metrics settings because if people were informed that it collects any type of data from their system, everyone would turn off the settings and ruin the entire goal of metrics.

 

In what world, even if I were to believe any of that, does it make it okay to spy on people because it is untraceable and anonymous? Is this how you justify what they are doing? Because that's just crazy...

 

And was I suppose to acknowledge Win8 doing the same thing positively or something? And because it would ruin metrics, it makes it okay to be spied on and lied to? I love how you justify the violation of people's privacy. If people don't want to be spied on they shouldn't be and M$ certainly shouldn't hide the ability to turn it off entirely by lying about accessible settings in the control panel. Those settings don't change a thing, at least not on their own.