Windows 10 Info.. I Don't Like This At All (1 Viewer)

Gellyneck

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More than toes wet now!
By the looks of it I might be safe. Still haven't got the upgrade icon to appear yet on four machines running 7 Home \ Pro.

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What a silly idea, and all to pander to people who can't be bothered to learn to use computers properly. Dumbing down computer systems to the level of people who can understand no more than a TV on/off switch was never a good move.
 

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I've put in for it, how do you turn off the shared wifi.
This feature is in windows 8.1 as well. Rather than me explain how to disable it here is a link to give you a step by step guide. Hope it helps.
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So why is that not good?

Seems like a good idea to me!

:cooler:
Because people will leave it open without realising it and it won't take all that long before crooks manage to crack the measures which restrict sharing to Internet access. That means that they will be able to access files on the local network itself, files which might contain confidential data.
 
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It is the same principle you share your wifi unless you opt out.

You need to use a spell checker! Well I for one am not about to share my wife!
and in answer to Deanroofing " I've put in for it, how do you turn off the shared wifi?" (spelleing again!). I find this only too easy.
Alan
 

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You need to use a spell checker! Well I for one am not about to share my wife!
and in answer to Deanroofing " I've put in for it, how do you turn off the shared wifi?" (spelleing again!). I find this only too easy.
Alan
:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

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Because people will leave it open without realising it and it won't take all that long before crooks manage to crack the measures which restrict sharing to Internet access. That means that they will be able to access files on the local network itself, files which might contain confidential data.

So can they not do the same with BT Fon?


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If you have any sense you won't touch Windows 10 with a bargepole. Microsoft software is notoriously buggy even when it is reaching the end of it's use and it's had 1000s of updates. The only reason Microsoft is giving away W10 free is because anyone that takes them up on the offer is a Microsoft beta tester. In other words you are taking on a new untested piece of software with a million errors and security flaws in it so that MS don't have to spend millions of $ paying their own people to test it. If you want to spend the next year sorting out Microsoft's problems for them, for no return then feel free. I'll stick with Windows 7 because it's had many of it's worst bugs taken out, and because Window's 8 is a useless pile of poo. I'm not expecting W10 to be any better.
 

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I like my old XP and 7 and will stick with it at the moment.

I run my embroidery machine from an XP although it will run from newer software with patches but the XP runs it faster and more smoothly.

I know I will have to upgrade at some point but am happy as I am at the moment. :)

I also have a machine running Windows95..... it has a very simple drawing program that is now defunct that does the most accurate drawings I have ever seen. If the screen says a line is x long then it will be x long!!! The best of the newer programs will have the line x plus or minus a smidgeon and the smidgeons add up over a lot of small pieces.
 
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Sounds a bit like BT Fon to me or am I missing something?
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It is different. Fon is where you share your Wifi connection. This feature in Windows 10 is sharing your Wifi passwords.... All of them, with everyone in your address book.

So you give access to your best friend to your wifi network, they automatically share this with their contacts and before you know it your whole neighbourhood has your wifi password.
 

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I will upgrade if given the opportunity. My Asus transformer (win 8.1) is just for messing about with, all the proper stuff is done on the Mac.

I will watch out for this though now I have been warned.





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So can they not do the same with BT Fon?

:cooler:
To add to what @Gromett posted. I'm not a BT Fon customer but my understanding is that there is some sort of firewall between the main access and Fon access routes through the BT box. That way it is not possible for the Fon user to access the local network. Where you allow somebody to sign on to the main router then access to the local network could be compromised.
 
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What a silly idea, and all to pander to people who can't be bothered to learn to use computers properly. Dumbing down computer systems to the level of people who can understand no more than a TV on/off switch was never a good move.
Are you suggesting that multi billion pound development organisations like MS and Apple should be pandering to the handful of users who have now retired from an IT environment yet still feel in some way superior to the billions of users who have computers and enjoy being able to use their limited knowledge to access the internet.
Dumbing down computer systems is done to maximise profits not cater to the few retired IT workers.:sleep:
 

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I like my old XP and 7 and will stick with it at the moment.

I can only see Windows 10 being attractive to those presently running Windows 8 and there are not many of them :D

I read somewhere that Microsoft plan to release Windows 9 sometime after Windows 10 has been shown to be another complete disaster for the company. Or is this just gossip? :rolleyes:

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I am running the preview 10, build 10162, I have to say I like it, a lot. More like 7 and fast too, when you stop the windows error reporting. Worth a try in my opinion, I hated 8.1 those stupid charms and other useless geek in la la land stuff.
 
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I can only see Windows 10 being attractive to those presently running Windows 8 and there are not many of them :D

I read somewhere that Microsoft plan to release Windows 9 sometime after Windows 10 has been shown to be another complete disaster for the company. Or is this just gossip? :rolleyes:
I guess that drilling down into most of these rumors will uncover dirty tricks by the direct competition. That is how things tend to work these days. If you cant beat it in development then make up rumors in an attempt to discredit the superior operating system.(y)
 

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Are you suggesting that multi billion pound development organisations like MS and Apple should be pandering to the handful of users who have now retired from an IT environment yet still feel in some way superior to the billions of users who have computers and enjoy being able to use their limited knowledge to access the internet.
Dumbing down computer systems is done to maximise profits not cater to the few retired IT workers.:sleep:
No, I'm suggesting that people who want to use a complex machine like a computer safely undertake appropriate training so that they don't expose themselves, or anyone else, to unnecessary risks - much as they do when they want to use a car for instance.
 
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No, I'm suggesting that people who want to use a complex machine like a computer safely undertake appropriate training so that they don't expose themselves, or anyone else, to unnecessary risks - much as they do when they want to use a car for instance.
Having just returned from a car trip with my Ex driving I must say that I felt like a retired IT specialist. Good analogy.(y)

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