If you’re concerned about Windows 10 ‘phoning home’ to Microsoft with all your keypresses, keyclicks, and commands to Cortana (“Microsoft vacates moral highground for the data slurpers cesspit“), then here’s a few articles with suggestions of what settings you need to change from their defaults:
What real users are saying about Windows 10
The Control Panel. Yes, the Control Panel. How is it possible for a final, shipped product (8, 8.1, and now 10) to have multiple versions of a single app (the Control Panel) where some options are in one version and other options are in the other? And the UIs of each are completely different.
At least the Control Panel vs Change PC Settings options are now no longer shown together in the same pop open Charms menu as they were in 8.x. I suppose at least in 8.x they put one at the top of the menu and the other at the bottom of the menu, like there was some discussion to keep them far apart because, oh I don’t know, because having two different links to two different Control Panels in the same menu might be confusing to users.
Anyway, so the bizarre charms menu is gone. The Metro Change PC Settings app from 8.1 is replaced with a new app in 10 with some snazzy looking icons. But wait.. the Windows 7 style Control Panel is still in Windows 10? With the the previous Windows 7 UI style? Wait, what? So there’s still 2 different Control Panels in 10? Microsoft please, get your design teams in the same room!
More other bizarre observations and pet peevs in this post over at The Register.
Can’t wait for your Windows 10 upgrade? Download it now.
If you ‘reserved’ your free upgrade to Windows 10 but you haven’t seen anything popup or appear to prompt you to install yet, if you really want to get it installed right now, Lifehacker have a link to the Windows 10 Media Creation tool which you can download and use to do an upgrade of 7 or 8.x to 10 right now.
Windows 10 – is it ready?
Only a day away from Windows 10 starting to rollout on July 29th, and people are wondering whether it’s really ready for release or not, or as The Register puts it, Microsoft are still playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with bugs before the actual release: “A number of nagging bugs have cropped up in the last few days that have some Windows 10 testers scratching their heads at just how an OS this raw can be considered production-ready.”
But if we’re prepared to accept’s Microsoft’s concept of ‘Windows as a Service’, this is all perfectly ok, because you’ll be getting a continual stream of Windows Updates to patch all the issues after the first release is pushed out. I’m not sure how this differs from any other Microsoft release of any prior release of Windows, but ok then, if you say so.
So your release forecast for tomorrow is: extremely buggy, with a very good chance of patches released later in the day.