Quote Originally Posted by Deonasis View Post
From the little I know about 10..
- it constantly gathers data from you and uses it to send ads your way and for onselling.
- it scans your drives and can automatically delete files MS chooses.

And was it an automatic download for 8.1 users? Because i hear it has been putting people over their d/l quotas. That is a breach of trust right there as it was not what automatic updates were for. A lady at work has now unwisely (but i don't blame her) turned automatic updates off.


I have Vista and was looking for 7 but is 8.1 the best before big b10ther came along?
The ads thing can be opted out of if you chooses default as well. It's a bit of a fiddle, but doable. It wasn't an auto download for 8.1 unless you reserved your copy for it, and you had to go through a different procedure to get it, as opposed to it being in the general updates page.

Quote Originally Posted by kup View Post
I think that only happens if you choose the Default options in the initial configuration. It asks a lot of questions about sending stuff to Microsoft including what you mentioned. I simply chose No on all of them.
Or google the opt out thing as well.

I've installed it on my new laptop and had one issue with it and thats because I didn't pay attention to when I installed it, and that was because it was in Japanese, I accidentally accepted default install. And it likes to reinstall apps I take out. I'd really like to delete forever some apps (never going to use the xboxx app for example).

I like it more than 8.1, but overall, I think Win7 is better than both. So if you're on 8/8.1, do it. If win7, I'd stick with that