COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MICHELE HANSON IN THE
GUARDIAN
Microsoft has spent its corporate lifetime ruining people’s
days.
It consistently sells incomplete or faulty products, repairs
them in a half-assed way as you use them, and then comes out with another
faulty product.
And that's apart from its long record of unfair competition
and squeezing the little business guys.
Now, they’ve hit upon the notion of Windows as a service you
keep renting – like anti-malwares – rather than a set of bits you pay for once.
To really get the new money-machine rolling they decided to make the first
install free and to basically dump it into people’s computers willy-nilly.
There are reports on the Internet of all kinds of problems with
incompatibilities and lost files.
It's actually a pretty ugly outfit, and I always get a laugh
out of Bill Gates, a man who made his money as a pretty ruthless corporate
predator, putting on his Dalai Lama air while protecting control of his fortune
from taxes by ladling out charity here and there, all the while keeping himself
center stage, for that is precisely what American foundations were designed to
do.
Seriously, you can prevent this corporate burglary in your
computer by downloading something called GWX Control. A software engineer built
it, and it's free, and it really works.
You can always change your mind later, but it has given me
peace of mind for many months. Windows 7, while far from perfect, is probably
the best operating system they ever built. All the sharp guys tell me Windows
10 is not as stable and that it has some undesirable features, to say nothing
of having been installed against your will.
This highly aggressive behavior is only intensifying in the
next few months.
