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Originally Posted by Katsunami
To be very honest, I've been thinking to switch to Linux full time because of the direction Microsoft has taken with Windows is going since Windows 8 (and Office since 2007).
I've tried, but it's almost impossible if you don't keep a seperate Windows-installation for games and Windows-software you really need; if you don't, much messing around ensues. (And I still haven't seen a decent alternative for Foobar, and CD-ripping software. That stuff is just much better under Windows.)
Yes, I run Windows 10 on both my computer and my laptop, but I only do so because in about 4 years, Windows 7 will be dropped, and I don't like sticking to the past if I will need to move to Windows 10 (or its successor) eventually.
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Who rips CD's in 2015?
There's this article out today:
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Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday described his company’s bold moves to protect Windows users from digital security threats. But the company has already made its most significant contribution to cyber security: free Windows 10 upgrades.
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the key to online safety for most customers is simply to install the most-up-to-date version of the Windows operating system. And that doesn’t necessarily cost time or money.
Microsoft has known for some time that moving users to the most recent version of the operating system makes them safer. In a 2014 analysis [http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/default.aspx] of Windows user data, Microsoft found that users of the old-school Windows Vista operating system were four times more likely to be infected by malware than Windows 8.1 users.
This year, though, the company made moving from an old version of Windows to the latest edition a free upgrade, at least for some users. Mr. Nadella has gone out of his way to shift Windows from a product to a service. In the new scheme, bug fixes are part of the deal, installed automatically in the background. Windows 10 also has core changes that make the system much harder to attack; features like Device Guard, which blocks untrusted software installed on a computer.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/11/...rss_Technology