Microsoft Windows

Windows + MS Office = Headaches. Constant updates reflect how often fixes are needed, why, because it's poorly vetted and just adding changes for change sake. Delays and reboots are regular occurrences. Plus many unnecessary additions to MS Office Suite - do we REALLY need a "sensitivity" icon in Excel, Viva Insights in Outlook to tell you what emails YOU wrote last week - when they are in your outbox anyway or an "Immersive reader", "translate" or to reply with a "meeting poll" - just more software to load to waste productive time? The basic product was good enough, it's all Buzzwords and Bull$&#t now!

I have to deal with my writing programs not responding at least 40 times per day. I have to save after each word

For 6 years I have been working with Windows 10 then 11 to get things running. When I finallu do. Even through I have programmed it not to update, and it is not connected to the internet it manages to updare and redamage all software so we have to start over. It's like it's actually prewritten into packages to regularly screw up. I can't even get file explorer to work without forcing it to crash. If you have an older version that does work, they send it packages to stop working, or you'll just wake up with a newer version. Whether you want it or not. I had 98 on a laptop. I'd manually update what I wanted. No issue. Their update forced the computer to overheat. What Rhett do should be illegal. Not just me, but paid services & their own techs can't get it to work right. I'm doing this by smart phone, because neither computer can do it.

First off anyone in tech knows that Microsoft has always been somewhat shady. Ties to the NSA, Proprietary formats, Changing formats with versions (office). Windows 10 is no different what Microsoft does is generally makes aesthetic changes and a few tweaks and calls it a new product. Their methods are nothing short of Draconian.
I have fixed countless computers of friends, family, and coworkers because of unwanted windows 10 upgrades. Broken drivers, Computers upgraded that are not 100% supported, meaning that with Windows 7 everything worked and with Windows 10 some things cannot work because there is no supporting software to make them work. Microsoft lost market share to Apple/Mac and some people defected to Linux. People are tired of getting bullied by Microsoft with all their lies and scams, licensing schemes and etc. Rumors of a "Software By Subscription" that may or may not be applied to the consumer market. It seems that companies Like Microsoft and Google (think chrome browser) just keep taking away choice from the consumers and jamming half baked software on the consumers. Windows 10 and Google Chrome have something in common UGLY user interfaces that can barely be customized at all. People should avoid ALL Microsoft and Google software and products. Both companies are all about money and they are both evil.

If I want to send my wank library to the CIA and NSA, I will send it myself you spying sellout... humans.

OUTSOURCED TO INDIA, POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE, NO ONE CARES AND NO WANTS TO GIVE SERVICE SINCE THEY GET PAID FOR THEIR PATHETIC WORK ETHICS AND LAZINESS
BRING JOBS BACK TO THE USA

Microsoft has turned into a joke of a company every since Bill Gates left and that jerk off Steve Balmer took over.

Windows 7 was great. Windows 8/8.1 was a joke. Windows 10 is an even bigger joke.

I run a computer repair shop and this is all from experience.
You get a free update to Windows 10 from 7 or 8. Sounds great. Driver support is beyond horrible. I have had numerous people come in and complain about Windows 10 getting put on their PC without approving it. Clicking on the X (the same button everyone has used since Win 95) in the corner of the popup actually APPROVES the update to win 10.

We could go on about the update process. MS has taken away your ability to control what drivers are used on your PC. Have a high end GPU and need to run a specific driver for a specific game? Better run another OS beside Win 10. MS will install whatever driver it feels is the best. Doesn't matter to them that a certain driver may cause freezing, audio popping or any number of other issues. MICROSOFT KNOWS BEST! MS also controls the update process. It will reboot WHENEVER IT WANTS. You could have 100 open office apps(unsaved) and the CPU running at 100% and the system will FORCE REBOOT. Every tried to reboot your PC when a office app was open? It says that a program is preventing windows from rebooting. Why? SO YOU DON'T LOSE WORK ON UNSAVED DOCS. MS specifically designed it so the system won't reboot when a office app is opened but not saved. Turns out that Windows 10 is too important for that and you can pray that office opens the file recovery window when it starts.

MS is constantly adding new features and whatnot to improve the OS. The problem is that its causing more issues than it solves. Update 1511 removed the ability to control drivers on your system. I have serviced about a dozen systems that had broken printers after the 1511 update. Printer says its working but only prints blank page. You have to completely uninstall your printer drivers before the upgrade (mainly HP printers). MS added a compressed memory feature that consumes extraordinary amounts of system resources. It works OK on newer systems but not so good on older systems without a lot of memory. Problem is that the feature was supposedly designed to improve performance on older systems. You cannot stop the 1511 update from being applied to your system. You cannot stop any updates.

And I didn't even mention that MS is selling your personal info to 3rd party affiliates for advertising.

TL: DR DON'T USE WINDOWS 10 UNLESS YOU WANT TO HAVE A BAD DAY. With many more to come later.

These BAZILLION DOLLAR company's make me so sick! I am a low income adult and I qualified for a reduced priced computer to send out resumes and such. I didn't use it that often, like 3 times a week. It started to act up so badly, I couldn't do anything on it. I thought that I had done something wrong but come to find out it's all the bloat in windows 10. It takes numerous minutes to load a page or do anything. When I send out things it comes back with an error because it's going so slow. When I looked up online and finally realized that I did not do anything wrong, I called Microsoft. They will not revert my system back to the old operating system because I don't have a product key. I Explained to them that I got it refurbished and they don't care! They said it's my fault because I clicked the link to get Windows 10. She said I should have never clicked on it. If I want to go back to my old system I have to purchase the software. That's more expensive then the whole computer system I received. So if you haven't gone to Windows 10 yet, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK THAT POPS UP EVERY 5 MINUTES! I have no idea how I'm going to pay you for the software or to get the computer fixed they really don't understand how important a computer is to some people.