The problem there is that you're using Windows 8. Get a real OS, not one with a toy interface.

First the advertisements will be optional. Then they won't be.

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How long before the few remaining Firefox users realize that Mozilla is behaving like any other money-grabbing corporation?

Display ads are still an important malware distribution mechanism..

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The Start menu takes up nearly half the screen with large icons, yet truncates the text for those large icons because the text has not been allocated enough room. Really, really poor UI design.

I lost control of the Windows Update process, there were no options for me to select besides, ~allow Microsoft to brick my computer at any time~.

My versions of Windows 7 are supported with security updates until 2020.

So tell me again, why do I want to dump Windows 7 and move to Windows 10? To please Microsoft is not a valid answer.

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(and, no, my email address is not @aol.com, and never has been)

There are windows on space capsules.

There are windows on railroad passenger cars.

There are windows in houses.

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My guess is that people, in general, like to look outside.

Bingo!

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And that's why I provided substantiation to show that Microsoft is often over-confident when it comes to such pronouncements.

Yes. The article's true. An oldie but a goodie.

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Given all the recent problems with Windows Update, and that Microsoft wants to use home users as beta test sites for future Windows Updates, I would think the 10 year old article is pretty close to reality nowadays.

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Remember when Microsoft declared the buffer overflow bugs were eliminated from Windows XP?