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Sep 19, 2015 - 9:41 PM
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Holly
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So, I have been following this conversation for a while now. *Don't mind me...I kinda of lurk on/off the FSM board. Depends on my work load and wot not.
But I've been receiving (since August?) this little "tattletale" icon encouraging me to upgrade to Windows 10. However, being the pessimistic person I am, I have refrained from doing so.
Anyways, so I'm talking with my friend Jose today about it. (*He's a sysadmin with a hearty Linux/Unix background.) And like Paul and et al., he eventually rolled back due to all the bugs and etc. that have not been fixed. *Unlike some of us, he's in a fortunate place where he simply downloaded/installed W10 on a personal computer out of sheer curiosity. He did say, however, that his workplace is now pushing toward it, even though most employers are still satisfied using Windows 7 or 8 on a universal basis. So sooner or later, I think we'll be herded toward it whether we like it or not. Esp. with it now being incorporated into OS updates.
As for social media...is it "Solium" (forgive me if mistaken!) who was talking about it? I canceled my Facebook account last year, and I have never done Twitter or anything else before or after. Life is good. No need for anything else except my usual travels thru the latest tech gossip. Technology is great...but life in it self...even more so 
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I'm just totally out of the loop. I don't have a smart phone, don't cross connect any devices, don't use the cloud, and don't use GPS of any kind. Don't use Facebook or Twitter. I never consciously got into the free stuff for giving up my privacy agreement. I guess to some extent I have as I have various email addresses.
That's me as well, to the last detail. 
Me three.
Me four.
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Resurrecting this old thread to warn those on Win 7 or 8.x, particularly those with metered internet connections or SSD drives that Win 10 is being pushed into your devices whether you chose to upgrade or not:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/09/12/microsoft-confirms-windows-10-now-forced-onto-windows-7-and-windows-8/
To prevent this from happening users have to manually remove a good number of automatic windows updates, as detailed on this article:
http://techne.alaya.net/?p=12499
There are also some good technical info on the same page to block data snooping from MS to a good extent.
I'll be looking into this, since MS just announced on my computer that they will automatically update my computer to W10 on 5/25/16 at 11 a.m., unless I cancel (I never even requested it!). Whatta buncha greedheads....
Thanks, Drawgoon.
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Thankfully the download doesn't work if you don't have enough space on your main hard drive for Windows 10 to download, which is the case for mine
Ditto. I hope this stops them, if they do try it after I cancelled.
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