Oh, goodie...

A reboot 'fixed' the Edge crash....and it's back to showing black bits instead.

The 22 second boot became 64 second.....

Life's a box of chocolates.....

....some of it is pre-chewed....

.....and melted.

Nope, not upgrading to a piece of ass that spies and phones home with way too much personal information.... cos at the end of the day there's no such thing as a 'free lunch' unless you're a friggin' politician... and by the look of most of 'em, rotund as they are, they've had a LOT of free lunches.

Now upgrading to a piece of ass that can cook, sew, clean and attend to my whims and fancies, well I'll take some of that.

Seriously, Win 8.1 is far better than Win 7 for me.  I bypass all that Metro crap and go straight to the desktop, and from there it's like using 7 but snappier..

As for Win 10, I just don't like it and will stick with what I have until its no longer viable.... which is when I look at a platform change to something Linux.  Ubuntu, Mint and Robolinux all are all looking good in that respect.  When I get settled in the other house I'll set up my dedicated Linux machine and begin testing the various distros to see which would be the best/better replacement.

And look, grandma left her teeth in one of the chewy ones.

When I ran the installer, it put all that phoning home crap up as options and I disabled it right then and there.  It's not even something you have to hunt for to get rid of it was less effort than setting the clock.

Yep. and to top it off much of it is to enable Cortana...and that's not even available in Oz [yet].

It should be, it was supposed to be up early September.

Cortana is available in these regions for these languages:

• China: (Chinese simplified)
• France: French
• Germany: German
• Italy: Italian
• Spain: Spanish
• United Kingdom: English
• United States: English

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/09/cortana-on-windows-10-officially-comes-to-australia/

Windows Insiders only still I guess.

Yep....

....and there's no point being an insider....unless you want to be the first kid on the block to be fucked royally by your OS ....

Sure you got it all? 

You do know there's some phone home crap buried deep within 10's core, right? 

And that it cannot be disabled without feching up the entire OS?  Which actually would be appropriate.

Anyway, the gist of my last post wasn't a dig at Win 10.  That was a precursor to the real dig... fat fechen politicians.

Like I said, I was in a frivolous frame of mind... and I dislike politicians more than I dislike Win 10.... just!

Oh yeah, I'm still in a frivolous, shit stirring frame of mind.  All my stuff is at the new house, and the power will be connected in the morning so I'll be able to spend my first night there tomorrow [Monday, Oz time].  So yeah, I'm in a good mood.

Jafo

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Yep....

....and there's no point being an insider....unless you want to be the first kid on the block to be fucked royally by your OS ....

See, I knew you really didn't trust/like Win 10.  I just knew it, I did!   Yup, I knew all that BS about 10 being fairdinkum was just to get a rise out of me.

Well now the truth is finally out there... Jafo thinks 10 fucks people over.

starkers....your input re 10 will have meaning ONLY if you ever actually use it.

Spouting someone else's dislike of it is meaningless.  You were constantly TELLING me that my dislike of 8 was because I simply didn't use it enough to like it....and here you are being a total bullshit artist by NOT practising what you preach.

Win 10 is - for want of a better title...a public BETA [whilst the insider ver is at best an alpha].  There are enough quirks on Terry's machine....[a long-running OS upgraded] to NOT  need more of them with the alpha program.

WHEN it is arguably 'finally RTM' it will be a superior OS to any and all before it, and definitely superior to the one you claim has the sun shining out of its arse.

jafo, I would tend to call the insiders a pre-commit by developer, rather than alpha(which implies that it has had SOME internal testing for functionality) and the public is more a alpha testing stage where the PUBLIC find the bugs/problems for microsoft to (hopefully) eventually get around to 'patching'(read making worse)

harpo the ghost NON-subcribing tech

I'm glad to see you feel that way, seriously.  I do intend to upgrade to it before the free period expires, purely for the longer support period, and I'm hoping that I don't have to grit my teeth for too long during or afterward.  I still have hope while leaving in the oven to bake a little longer.

You do realise that my last couple of posts have been far from serious, don't you?   I really don't care about Win 10 and who likes and uses it... or not.  Just because I'm not going there does not mean I begrudge others for having done so.  Each to his/her own! 

Like I said earlier, I'm done discussing Win 10 in any serious way.  As you point out, I have not used it, so there's not a lot I can add to what I've already said...the fact I don't like it and will stay with what I am happy with.

Oh there is one more thing: prolonged use of Windows 10 will give you warts, athletes foot and a runny nose... and extended use negates the effect of Viagra, which at your age could lead to feeling limp all over.