Quoting LightStar,

reply 1

The story was put over in a humorous way, but the way MS is going about promoting Win 10 <read, trying to force it down PC users throats> is so unfunny it's damned miserable and downright criminal.  I used to trust and respect Microsoft, but not any more.  Now I lump MS in with Apple, Google and bankers, as companies/people I neither like or trust.

Now thats creative marketing! 

Thing is, I've had little to nothing to do with lawyers, not that it excuses me for forgetting them... I'm sure there's enough black hearted ones around that I could lump in with MS, Apple, Google and bankers.  Sadly, the worst of the worse seem to keep getting away with the worst of things.

I get what you're sayin', Uvah... while we're looking around one corner looking at Win 10 distractions, they're around another corner doing even dirtier deeds behind our backs... unwatched and uninterrupted.

Yup, makes sense.  They're probably working on AI [Artificial Intelligence] cos the company is sadly lacking since this Win 10 fiasco.

And because of all this 'phone home' shit in Win 10, and cos I ain't got 3 hands, I've resorted to placing some Blu tac over the lens of my webam while I'm watching p0Rn.  I mean, I don't want a bunch of preverts watching me while I'm being a prevert, do I?

Oh, and another insidious bunch of insidious wannabes with self serving agendas that I don't like, and possibly far more insidious than the others [except for Microsoft], is global warming scientists.  In fact, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it's Microsoft who's providing these insidious l'l twats with the modelling programs they use to 'predict' all sorts of weird shit.... like sea levels rising 50ft by 2020; the moon falling out of the night sky; the sun baking free range eggs before farmers can collect 'em.... and such.

I know that!  The people you should be telling is those fechen idiot global warming freaks who feed crap into a computer to get even worse crap out that'll scare people into giving up some [if not all] of their creature comforts.

Again, tell the global warming freaks the moon ain't falling on top of us any time soon.... if ever.  Fact is, the moon is creeping further away cos it's worried about what Earth's crazy politicians might put up there to so-say keep the peace, etc.

Now tell me, fer fech's sake, wot crazy farrmer's gonna let his chickens 'free-range' in Death Valley?   Fer a start, I just don't see how heat-exhausted chickens are gonna lay freshly boiled, fried, scrambled or poached eggs. 

Nope, the only mob who's gonna allow free-range chickens in Death Valley is KFC... then all they gotta do is add the breadcrumbs and 11 herbs and spices to the perfectly cooked birds.

I don't blame MS for this, I blame the computer techs. These high powered companies hire people who don't know what they are doing. I'm not a computer tech but I know how to stop Win 10 updates. This is why companies are getting hacked cause no one is minding the store. Put down your game controller and pay attention to your job.

 Rant over

Amazingly enough, I've never once read anything in the forum ban game threads.  And nothing in them bothers me in the least.

Stop being so damn reticent, Cauldyth!

I didn't see this before

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Quoting Daiwa,

reply 16

Stop being so damn reticent, Cauldyth!

Anyhow, I wish you'd look it up in the dictionary, Daiwa, and learn how to spell 'anal' properly.

Thread terrorists!

Nah, we're just having a bit of fun.  There's too many bad things happening in the real world, so why not try to balance things up a little here in the forums? 

As for leaking the global warming stuff over here, it wasn't the intention, as such.  No, it was more tongue-in-cheek to tie Satya Nadella, and thus MS to the crackpot idea by providing the software to falsify records and create false models, etc.

Speaking of Oops, I always liked Weird Al's parody of Britney Spears' "Oops, I Did It Again."

And moving right along here.... MS is having more oopsies than most in recent times.  Apart from a few delusional fanboi comments, and from others who are still adjusting to life in a strait jacket, I've not heard a good word about Microsoft in ages.  This trying to force people into using Win 10 is pissing of a lot of people, and not just power users and affectionados who have set up Win 7 or 8 to their liking.  Nor is it just the computer literate and people who know a thing or two.  No, I had and old bird [lady] comment when she heard an old friend and I discussing the crap coming from Redmond these days.  She told us in no uncertain terms that she was sticking with Win 7 and that "Microsoft can go f**k itself."

Hehe, she would have easily been in her 80's, and I didn't expect that kind of language from her, but she sounded so annoyed with MS at the time that it was  completely understandable.  Fortunately, she has a great, great grandson who knows a bit about PCs, and he told us that he installed GWX Control Panel for her.

I saw something the other day that bothers me, and that is that MS is constantly reinventing and renaming the Win 10 upgrade precursors for Win 7 and Win 8.1.  The article showed a rather long list of updates that install the means necessary to download and install Win 10 despite the user's past rejections of the OS.  I wish that I had sent myself a link to the article [wasn't at home at the time] so I could link to it here, but there were 30+ Win 10 related updates listed, all of which are designed to persuade non-10 users, with forceful downloads and installations if necessary, to upgrade sooner not later... or not at all.