Broderbund Print Shop Deluxe 23 is one such piece of software. It worked without significant issue on Windows 7, but after the upgrade it’s throwing errors left and right. Not software I use, but my phone is the one that rings when the user can’t get it to run any more. It’s one of those software packages designed to…

There are applications and hardware that are compatible with Windows 7 but are not compatible with Windows 10.

Many people (not the kind you find here) treat a computer as a tool. They don’t care how it works as long as it does work. They don’t want the way it works to be forcibly changed on them. And they certainly don’t know what “hidden” setting is required to prevent something like this from happening to them.

Imagine how much less that 17.9% would be if it wasn’t for the constant nagware and sneaky auto-installs?

Considering Win7 security support doesn’t run out until 2020, it’ll be awhile before those bot nets can take off just because users didn’t opt in to Win10.

The dialog presents the user with two obvious options: Upgrade Now and Upgrade Later in the place of the prior Yes and No responses. It does NOT present an option of “Stop asking me I do Not want to upgrade now or ever.” They intentionally obscure the fact that you can “ignore” the dialog by pressing the X in the…

I’m still waiting for the class action lawsuit to popup, but I’m sure that the legal jargon in the terms of service for windows update provides MS with an iron clad cover.

Free Security updates for Windows 7 will be provided until January 14th 2020 according to MS’s product support lifecycle. So, upgrading right now really isn’t necessary unless you want to “cash in” on the “free” upgrade before it runs out.

Depending on the manufacturer and the age of the laptop, they can be notorious for having hardware driver dependent special buttons or features. In the case of my laptop, Toshiba took forever to release Win7 drivers for some of it’s proprietary hardware features (and even then I had to scour their european support…

Microsoft ruins nice things like auto installing updates when it brings out these auto scheduling upgrades.

There’s a saying that goes “If it isn’t broke don’t fix it”, and while I see many people here arguing that switching to Win10 is necessary because of security updates for discovered vulnerabilities: “Extended support for Windows 7 lasts until January 14, 2020, so users can expect to continue to receive free security…

The auto-upgrade scheduling is probably targeting Home edition installs or computers that aren’t part of an Active Directory domain. Now why any business would be using home edition instead of professional or enterprise edition... that’s probably just part of their corner cost cutting. Fact is many businesses aren’t…

This is actually false. Originally it was a constant nag box asking the user to update every day they sat down at their pc. However, that changed recently:

The case for most is not the case for all. Some applications do require some pretty extensive compatibility workarounds to make them run on Windows 10, especially applications related to scanners and other more esoteric hardware devices. The fact that MS is running around taking the choice out of the consumers hands…

It’s an american thing I think. I don’t believe the rest of the world is anywhere near as prudish. Granted, I could be wrong, I’ve never lived in the rest of it.

Technically it’s a legal gray area. There are “laws” that make it illegal to circumvent encryption and protection mechanisms. However the guilt is not on the person providing the tool capable of doing so, it’s on the person that uses it (just like someone that sells a gun can’t be held responsible for what gets shot…

I don’t think it’s so much of a question of who they don’t listen to, as it is a question of who do they listen to? Who do they listen to that results in an expansion pack whose subscriptions numbers fall to less than half the previous expansions’ numbers, past the point where they’re so embarrassingly low that they…

So, first step in naming a game in development for a US release should be to submit a trademark application to USPTO and see if they approve the trademark or not? Using the article’s case as a scenario: If they were willing to issue a trademark for “Alien Wasteland” then obviously they don’t believe it infringes on…

The sad thing is they could but fail to boolster the wii u’s line up by letting it run titles from it’s 3ds handheld market - it’s effectively got the same input devices and arguably more powerful hardware, there’s little reason it shouldn’t be able to run the same software.

So if the NX turns out to be the next new home console, then this Zelda is probably going to be another cross-platform launch title for it just like Twilight Princess was between the Game Cube and Wii. I just hope their NX doesn’t involve holding a 3-hr battery life brick as your main controller.