After all that fluster about "Oh, you must get windoze10 before the year's counter runs out or else you're screwed..." etc, seems they dropped in a (several) loop holes so that folk can still get it for free, should they feel brave enough.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4vjzm1/apparently_if_you_use_ctrlc_that_is_an_assistive/

"Here's a link which by Microsoft's own definition, lists keyboard shortcuts as "built-in assistive technologies in Windows 10." https://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windows10/

"Time is running out" and "Get yours before it's gone" is just a popular effective marketing strategy. Apparently by their own definition we all use Windows 10 build-in assistive technologies simply by pressing CTRL-C, therefore we still qualify for Windows 10: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade"

Also, more court cases:

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-sued-over-windows-10-update-campaign/

Thanks, apparently I didn't have those files taking precious space from my GOG games. Maybe it wasn't preloaded as I always had the automatic updates disabled on Windows 7 (I check for them manually every few weeks, that's enough for me).

Looks like win10 is still fucking folk over & not even buying them a drink before the dirty deed...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4zmttk/gw2_game_client_uninstalled_itself/

"Today when I got home from work I opened up my computer to see that all the icons for GW2 were missing. Upon further investigation, every single file (except one lone screenshot) was deleted. Did something become corrupt or did I uninstall in my sleep?"

Updated:

"The problem is/was confirmed as the newest update of Win10 being bad and getting rid of my files."

Ages since I had gw2, but with all the stuff added since then & the expansion, I imagine that'll be 30-50gig of data that got deleted without giving the user the option to say GTFO before it happened.

I imagine anyone on metered internot would be seriously pissed off & then some!

And how can everyone be sure about that? There's literally not enough hints to point at Windows 10, not even citings from trusted publications. For all we could know, it could be a prankster family member who just so happened to make this happen a few days after the Anniversary Update (and not say, straight away). It could also be real, but again, there's nothing besides "someone said Windows 10."

There were others in the thread that said it happened to them too & whilst they could be just making it up, it seems more believable than not, considering it has happened with various other bits of software in the recent past.

I'm worried about the could be making it up aspect. If I had Windows 10 now, I suppose I could have wasted a couple of days downloading GW2 for testing. Anyways, it may sound less believable to me. The other software it wip- oh, it included the Catalyst Manager for AMD cards alright.

I do hear the current anniversary update has issues, is it possible their new update system isn't quite a friendly as opposed to intentionally pulling the deletions out? Because I'm not really convinced whether Speccy, AMD Catalyst or GW2 pose any kind of issues with MS, which are the candidates I've heard of, GW2 being the newest entry.

The performance seem crappy with the anniversary update, it locks up the system sometimes. Also it's really annoying that they are sending out in stages/randomly, which is not a good idea in business environment.

In another thread had someone asking for help to ask on the forums for problems with the AU update. Seems it was slowing his computer down heavily on top of making the games he wanted to play not work. When he reinstalled and kept the updater from running from the base (earliest version?) Games were running 3x-4x faster.

I really don't see why systems should have any performance problems anymore at the speeds we're running at.

Do you really think anyone gives a half-hearted fart about your whiny, corporate drone? lol

I do. Because I know how it works. Apparently you are clueless about how the software development works?

Stop reading craps from internet you don't even have any clue about.

I doubt that you know your arse from your eyebrows. ;p

Crypto News with Bruce Schneier has a few interesting windows 10 links. Although the first is on breaking webcams for the AU, this other one caught more my attention.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-blatantly-disregards-user-choice-and-privacy-deep-dive

Today I'm just discovered that the W10 xbox integration is spying with what games you play in another platforms, even with the app uninstalled!!

I just noticed that the xbox game DVR feature is on, so my fist think was "whats in the hell is this, if i uninstalled the app again just after the Anniversary Update reinstalled it again, and also I disabled the game DVR long time ago"

So I installed the xbox app again in order to disable the game DVR, and after signin to disable the thing (ms not allow you to disable this feature without a MS account), I'm found this:
http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p415/pesanur/xbox_spyware_zpsqwx0dbjz.png

So basically, when you remove the xbox app through the powershell, you are only removing the frontend, but the thing continues active in the background, and spying with games you play in another clients, and tracking the ones that are also in their platform.