Journal #8598

I heard a rumor about Windows 10 shutting down pirated games, and I wonder:

1. Does Stojke suddenly hate Win 10 because of this
B. Would the same apply to emulators, or just pirated PC games specifically?

I wouldn't worry too much about Stojke's opinion, he was supporting SOPA and all that guff years ago.

Get 2 computers with W10. Install pirated games in the first, install emulators in the second. Wait and see.

@Dim: The pirated games thing is almost certainly a tie-in to their app store, they're not trying to scan your hard drive for ISO files or something. If you try to launch an app store game on an account that hasn't purchased it, it'll tell you to buy the game. It's part of any standard app-store EULA, not just a Windows 10 thing.

Anyway Stu, the Windows 10 upgrade requires you to go through a basic wizard to approve the upgrade. If your updates are installed automatically, the wizard is probably auto-cancelling because nobody is around to click the button. In Windows 7 you can stop an update from coming through by finding it in the "pending updates" list and going into the right click menu. No Windows 10 upgrade has been automatically applied without somebody clicking the "Yes, I want to upgrade to Windows 10 right now" button.

Some people need to stop thinking everything is malicious...

Not necessarily malicious, but aggressive? Yes.

It's all about what Microsoft can do to our computers, not necessarily what they are doing to them right now.

And you're deluded if you think Windows 10 enables anything new in that space that they couldn't do before. If it's in Win10 now, it's safe to assume it's in all supported Windows versions. MS are just aggressively pushing their new product so they can try to monetise using their app store and Microsoft account integration, plus they want to avoid people getting "stuck" on an ancient version, like what happened with XP. Take off the tinfoil hat, or just switch to Linux already and stop with the paranoid conspiracy theories.

I'm almost bothered that as far as I can tell, I've never seen such an offer to upgrade.

PB brings up a very good point that most of the "aggresive" Win 10 tactics purpose is to get people off of OSs that are slowly becoming more and more unsupported. Look how many businesses still use XP, and that's outdated by anyone's standard. If almost everyone is on 10; that provides an incentive for those companies to also move to a more modern system. I don't even want to think of how many exploits and virii that has been developed specifically for Win XP; it's not exactly safe either.

And all this BS about cortana spying on everything you do- the data that microsoft sends is the exact same that they've been sending in previous versions of windows, and it's VERY easy to turn off. Learn to stop worrying and love the Win10

I wont be using Cortana because Bing.
I will be getting WIN10 though. Soon.
I'll let y'all know how it works out

RIP Tetsu0

Well ATM my computer keeps throwing hissy-fits and crashing without any BSOD. This is WIn7

I have no such problems on my Win 7 system and it's been running fine ever since I got it 3 years back... But then again; everything and everyone is different..

Fixed it i think. Driver update.

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I put windows 10 on my laptop successfully. I didn't do a fresh install, because i had office apps on there (pain to re-download).

My experience:

The settings are easy to navigate and it's easy to turn off all the location things and tracking settings.

Start menu bloat exists but it's easy to get rid of (just how you think)

I got used to Windows Key + Typing my apps a while ago and I like the responsiveness

Resource monitor is cool

My mousepad doesn't scroll but that's the least of my worries.

I dig it

Of course its different, because it does not install with out confirmation.