OT: Windows 10

[Kenneth Brody]

On 8/12/2015 4:47 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> Ken,
>
> You're are correct with regards to "privacy".  However, today most of those
> purchasing new systems  are people who don't care about privacy.  The post
> everything on-line in social media.  Microsoft has made it even easier to
> "share" everything on line.  Leave the OS open so everything on the computer
> is exposed.  No hacking or phishing needed, find the computer or device and
> log on.  Let's make it easy, just think of the ages of those doing the
> programming and designing the OS.

The Windows 10 "The future starts now" begins with the lines:

     Imagine -- These kids won't have to remember passwords.

     Or obsess about security.

A bit closer to the truth than they intended?

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu6vmNz-PhE

> What I liked about the Enterprise version was the speed with which my laptop
> came up after being turned off or put to sleep.  It was quick.; much faster
> than with Windows 7.  Now Windows 8.1 come up quickly making the machine
> available almost instantly.  My Windows 7 was take a few minutes to boot up.
> Most of the time I hibernated the machine so it would come up faster.  This
> option seems to have been removed from Windows 8.1 and 10.  It really isn't
> needed.

My Win8.1 system will come out of sleep pretty quickly.  Unfortunately, Task 
Manager shows the drive pegged at 100% usage for several minutes afterwards, 
making response time very slow.

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Kenneth Brody