A word of caution for everybody in the US, but particularly PC users

[cactuswatcher]

Last night I switched on my computer and got yet another blurb for Windows 10 come up. This one was more insistent than the rest saying my computer was scheduled for update to Windows 10 on Monday. I don't need or want an upgrade on this old computer (one of the last sold with Windows 7). It took a little doing to find my way into the screen where I could cancel the "upgrade."

The thing is I don't know how many Windows 7 and 8 computers that Microsoft suddenly decided to change to Windows 10 at the same time without their owners requesting it. It could be millions. It could be a more reasonable number. I don't think it was a fluke that the notice of the upgrade came on a Friday night with the upgrade supposed to come on a holiday. I wouldn't be surprised if the Internet is a giant mess Monday and Tuesday morning when perhaps millions of computers in the US are trying to download the exact same thing from Microsoft. Maybe when the computers come on the owners will have the option to say no again. But the number of people who decide 'why the heck not' could be enough to create a huge mess.

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[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

It's no secret Windows 10 has all kinds of ways for Microsoft to track what you are doing if you don't carefully turn it all off. OneDisk(TM) is just an easy way for them to scan everything you do. The list of things on your phone, pad or computer they want to be able scan all the time is staggering: your location, your Photos, voice stuff as you record with your devices, key-loggers, what you click on. It can all be turned off, which is no doubt how they stay legal. But there is so much of it that you are never sure you got it all. Reports say that some of the updates have turned things back on without reporting it to the user.

I have one computer that has Windows 10. It runs fine. But I never use that one connected to the net.

It may be all for the purposes of advertising, but if Microsoft has it someone worse could break in and use it all.