So, would you Upgrade to Windows 10???
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Where? A Refurb from NewEgg. The bloatware was MS Office365. I actually bought a DELL M6500 from ThinkGreenPC (for me) and it had zero bloatware out of the box. The reload partion didn't bother with the Office365 - so if you need to go by what changed in the system the finger's easily pointed. Experience w/MS screwing other peoples apps with upgrades, include major apps like ZoneAlarm, are legion. Not to mention that an unrequested upgrade could leave your system in a "Do Not Turn Off" state for ridiculously long periods of time. Perish the thought that it's a laptop and your battery is too low and you don't have a charger (or outlet), etc. The really mysterious part is how you'd not be aware of the well know phenomenon of doing a MS upgrade and thereby trashing your system. It's been going on since DOS 6.0.
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W∴ Balboos wrote:
The really mysterious part is how you'd not be aware of the well know phenomenon of doing a MS upgrade and thereby trashing your system.
Systems can get trashed no matter what OS is running, I wouldn't single out MS. Mind you, I've steered clear of Office 365, maybe it would be giving me grief just the same. But you'd think if there were widespread problems on pristine installs, it'd be fixed by now. It's been at least 3 years now I've run nothing but VMs here at home. With all hardware virtualized and no crappy driver to get in the way, I've yet to have to rebuild a single one of them (and that's including moving all VMs from one physical host to another--twice...and then changing the host OS in-between).
W∴ Balboos wrote:
It's been going on since DOS 6.0.
6? Are you feeling generous? :-D