The scream bloody murder about HIPPA! HIPPA! and act like you are a trrrist if you ask for your cousin's condition.

Then they give everyone's data away.

Hopefully he is just trolling. Otherwise dumb as a rock.

IBM mainframes in the 70's

MS-DOS

AmigOS

AmigaDOS

Apple since mid 80s

Windows since 3.1

Vista stunk, and windows 8 damn near killed the desktop industry it was so bad. Others? not too bad. W10 so far? Not too bad at all.

No - sorry, AC. if you cannot see that Windows 8 is a hot steaming pile of shit, Its your lack of intelligence. Not those with the ability and experience to judge it.

Careful, you're going to encourage that "cows say MOO!" guy.

Mute? you insensitive clod! Think of the unfortunate who can't have aural sex.

1. Install Firefox

2. Open Firefox 3. Select Firefox as your default browser.

This is one of the weirdest non-issues I've seen in about forever. Would it be better if say, Microsoft would make Vivaldi the default browser so you'd have to download Vivaldi because it doen't come with Windows 10?

Or have we become so stupid and lazy that it's too much trouble, or too confusing to check a check box that shows up the first time you open the program?

On a sacrificial computer, and because I had a support task to perform that was on a Windows ten computer. Some times ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Ain't that the troof!

I've stored up a lifetime's worth of nasty Windows memories, with some highlites of them making perfectly good peripherals obsolete, update hell, the removal of employees previously free version of Office, Ribbons, and Windows 8. And so much more! My hatred runs deep.

So I did need to do some Windows 10 support already - not a 10 problem, but that was the guy's OS. So I got W10 installed on a sacrificial computer. Took 4 hours to become proficient enough to not embarrass myself.

And damn - it isn't bad at all. I feel dirty for saying that, but I gotta be honest here. I didn't have one "What the hell?" moment.

I'm beginning to think that some of their arrogant "We'll tell you what you like" attitude might have gone away with the new owner of the LA Clippers.

As an old tyme Windows hater, I'm not getting some of this. On the 29th I reserved my upgrade. I did a number of updates to get to that point.

Looking at how the update was going to be done, I left the machine on overnight idling.

On the thirtieth, I was notified I was ready, and upgraded. Could not have been easier.

I would have thought that reserving on rollout day would have put me in a long waiting line, and of course there would be a lot of serverhammer (c) on the first few days.

The whole process was flawless, and thank gawdd for that. My original plan was to wait until near the end of the update cycle and see how things were going. Make a decision on staying with 7 or not. But a fellow I was doing some software/hardware troubleshooting with foolishly updated to W10 thinking it would fix his problem, so I needed to know a little about ten before I took remote control of his computer

The results stunned me. Everything just worked. I didn't have to go to the web to figure out simple things like I did in W8. After 4 hours of playing around in it, I was ready to support it. Windows 8 was so nasty, I refused to support it.

Perhaps a Ballmerless company grew some balls here, listened to it's customers, and did it right. Really a tough job taking the steaming pile of shit that was W8, and turning it into something a confirmed Unix like devotee such as myself likes.

There's

What will we do? WHAT WILL WE DO?

After updating a sacrificial computer to W10, I installed Firefox. When it opened it told me it was not my default browser and to check a box if I wanted it to be default.

Am I going to get carpal tunnel for that one click? Regardless, I cried all night long, lost my self esteem, and became bulimic.

Thanks Obama!

As a person who has payed out ten metric fucktons of money and maybe used a thousand dollars worth of their precious entitlement from me, I'm not shedding a tear.

Most memorable was oncemanyl years go, I used a towing service that was "covered". Two weeks later, my insurance bill went up over twice the amount of the tow. No accidents, no tickets, nothing at all to raise it - and since I was paying twice a year at the time, they were quadrupling their punishment that I had the audacity to take some of their money. Cry me a fucking river insurance companies.

I've upgraded to windows ten on a sacrificial computer.........

and......

so far......

I'm not hating it. Holy shit - I'm not hating it! I have been able to find my way around, the whack-a-mole Windows 8 system controls are gone, and I haven't had to go to the internet once to find out how to do something, also a W8 SOP.

But I set up and used some programs I expected might have trouble, and did a remote cotrol session across the country training a person, and it all worked. I'll note that there are a few things yet I'm really concerned about, like the update process, and Wi-fi sense.

And lest anyone call me a shill, I'm an old school Microsoft basher.

But I could actually use this damn thing. sheesh, I need a beer now, I'm all shook up....

As much as it's oh so fashionalbe to break into hysteria "Them Drowne ownas iz flaan ovah MA Prawperdy, and iz lookin at my loveley teenage dawder!" and rabid slashdotters are at the ready to go apeshit about it - it might be handy to watch the drone owner's video of the tracking of the drone.

http://www.wdrb.com/story/2967...

At that height, I doubt the drone owner would be able to have seen the shooter's lovely teenage daughter. It was certainly interesting to see how the tracker folloed the drone as it lost altitude and crashed.

So I suspect in the end, I think the Shooter was just trying to prove his point and have something to talk about at the local bar. He'll be a legend to the terminally fearful, protecting hiz dawder from drowne flyin' preverts. At around 200 feet. I have a drone, and they just aren't designed to spy on people like that.

It's a good thing he didn't shoot down that pistol packin' drone we heard about the other day - that would have violated someone's second amendment rights, and started a 21st century Hatfield/McCoy war.

Those would probably not have taken down the drone, except by a very lucky hit.

That's what I'm here for! And you have a better sense of humor than you think, it would appear. Oh well, that's about enough for this agitation engineer.