Upcoming Windows 10 patch begs you not to change

I think this article sums up my Windows 10 fears perfectly. 

A snip

I initially intended to upgrade to Windows 10, but the longer I’ve waited, the more uncertain I am that doing so is a good idea. It’s not a question of whether the UI is faster or DX12 a better gaming API — I’m fundamentally uninterested in engaging in a protracted fight with my operating system. In the past six weeks, we’ve seen Microsoft start including app suggestions in your own start menu, accidentally force-upgrade some users to Windows 10, download Windows 10 to systems even when the user has not requested that this occur, refuse to shut off telemetry, and refuse to address problems with its own patching model.

When I decided not to upgrade to Windows 8, my reasons were structural — I thought the Metro interface was a disaster and wasn’t willing to pay Microsoft for an OS with huge swathes of functionality I didn’t want. With Windows 10, the underlying model is far more solid, but Microsoft’s efforts to monetize, monitor, and control end-user interactions are extremely frustrating.

The article goes on to explain how one of the new patches will be asking users to actually "use" the applications that come with the operating system.  Of course this begs the question. "How do they know you aren't using them?"

Yep, you are telling them, but not directly.

I suspect this will blow over eventually and the many many annoyances M$ has been building into Windows 10 will simply become noise while people use their computers how they want, else they will switch to something that will.

New OS anyone?

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