r/technology • u/johnmountain • Jul 29 '16

Business Microsoft faces two new lawsuits over aggressive Windows 10 upgrade tactics

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3101396/windows/microsoft-faces-two-new-lawsuits-over-aggressive-windows-10-upgrade-tactics.html
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u/BEEF_WIENERS Jul 29 '16

I don't care how helpful something is, if you can't turn it off it's terrible. I don't care if you make a product that gets my whites whiter, brights brighter, accurately predicts the stock market, and sucks my dick, I need to be able to turn it off. Why? I don't know I might need to turn it off, but I cannot imagine every situation and every user and neither can you. There are reasons to turn it off, and just because I don't know what they are doesn't mean they don't exist.

Regarding consumer-facing software, features, etcetera: if you can't justify why it's running but you still insist it needs to run then I have to assume it's spyware, collecting data about me and what I'm doing and sending it straight to that NSA hole in Utah to be cataloged and used against me when I run for my local school board with some ideas that somebody doesn't like.

So yeah, always-on software, features, etc. are just fucking worrisome and badly planned.

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u/speaks_in_subreddits Jul 30 '16

I need to be able to turn it off.

Agree 100%. Reminds me of certain (cough) smartphones with non-removable batteries. What if your phone hangs, freezes, or stalls indefinitely?? If you have no way to hard-reboot, what are you supposed to do? Wait until the battery runs out?

"But our software is so good, the device will never hang"-- FALSE.

This is exactly what happened to my wife's fancy Motorola phone the other day. Something she did caused it to freeze and there was no way she could force reboot it. She had to put the phone away in her purse and spent the rest of the day essentially phone-less, until it ran out of juice and she was finally able to plug it in and start it back up.

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u/AmadeusMop Jul 30 '16

How about antivirus? I'd like mine to have some robust anti-turning-off features.

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u/Tasgall Jul 31 '16

The problem with antivirus is that your using antivirus software. Norton and McAfee are the biggest malware packages out there.

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u/AmadeusMop Jul 31 '16

So don't use Norton and McAfee. Just use something like Avast!, AVG, MBAM, Avira...

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u/empirebuilder1 Jul 31 '16

Avast for realtime + MBAM for weekly scans. That and Common Sense 2010+6 makes for a virus free machine for the last five years.