Too late? To the time machine!

(Sorry, with your avatar I couldn't resist)

I've been meaning to try out Jessie sometime. Been on Wheezy for ages.

You get calls from a lady from the windows offices asking you why you keep looking at instructions on how to install linux online.

Ok, now can someone please win other lawsuits about Win10 privacy, forced updates, removed options, horrible UI, etc?
:P

Finally, the siege is lifted. We can now stop eating our own dead.

oooh, the irony ;)
lol

Same call I got when I was deleting some stuff from my Zune or when I went to the video store to trade my HD DVDs for Blu-Ray discs ;P

Doesn't that mean you can't install anything from the Windows Store? I guess that is fine if you don't want anything from there, also in the future...

How? What? How?
The only pop-up Win10 has ever shown me was for OneDrive and that was solved by deselecting the "start OneDrive with Windows" option. Not once did it ask me for my phone number or other similar information.

Are you sure you set up the privacy options correctly?

Personally I'm quite okay with Windows 10. A bit slower than 8, but feels generally like an okay upgrade.

My biggest gripe with it is the upgrade method. Nice they're backing away, but considering it's about a month till free upgrades stop being a thing, it seems rather disingenuous, like they're only backing off now to make sure people who managed to remain on 7 and 8 wouldn't be missing an update removing the offer after it expired and incoming complaints about false advertising.

I work IT support for a school. During exams this summer we've had 4 students whose computer decided to upgrade DURING an exam. 3 of them about 5 minutes after a written exam started, one when reading notes while preparing for an oral exam.

My take away is: Windows 10 is a nice OS. This, and the "ready or not, we're updating now" updates of Win 10 means if were to have a computer used for anything mission critical which must not suffer downtime, I'd advise caution against WIndows. I can follow their thinking, people on 8 and especially 7 and older would ignore critical security updates for months at a time, then complain when they got hit by an exploit long patched.

Altogether removing the option to delay further than 24 hours is...stupid. In my opinion they should've carried on with the Windows Vista/7 way of having an annoying popup tell you to update your system and let you postpone it maybe 24 hours first off, when next it shows up, cut it to 12 hours, then 6 hours down to 1 hour. Pester people to apply patches (let super users set further delays through a commandline, if it's so mission critical it cannot be rebooted there's bound to be at least one tech-savvy person reachable).

As to the Mobile phone pestering, I believe that's a feature of a Live account, not Windows 10. But if you sign in with a Live account, it will likely pester you to add a phone number for two factor protection of your account. Got that done with my Live account some time ago, only messages I've gotten on it has been "A new device wants to access your Live account, if you initiated this, enter this pin code"

I have installed things from the Windows store and I only use local accounts for my computer logins.

Thanks for the heads-up. I guess in a few days I can turn updates back on. Maybe Windows 11 will be better (assuming there is a Windows 11).

I'm not using Windows 10 much, but from what I'm reading and what I recall from the only time I think I've got updates, the computer doesn't reboot automatically, right? That should be fine for "home" users of Windows 10 Home.

And if not, then you have Windows 10, well, Professional and Enterprise editions. Anyway you'll most probably need one of those if you're running something mission critical.

I haven't bought a single Microsoft product in more than a decade, besides the 360.

Bad news for you.

Micro$haft said windoze10 is the last version.
They`ll just keep updating 10 instead of making new version.