With the upcoming release of Windows 10 a few things people should probably be reminded about. As I sit here and put my tinfoil hat on please be prepared. It has been a big bother of mine since installing windows 10 preview that Microsoft seems to have a disconnect with privacy.
In some facets of technology Microsoft has been moving ahead quite well, just look at Hololens and how awesome that will be. Then they announced Direct X 12 which before I have actually seen performance in an actual machine sounds pretty awesome a well. They then decide to "fix" Windows 8/8.1 and give you back a familiar layout similar to Windows 7 with a few enhancements that may or may not have been seen for years on various GNU/Linux desktops. This is great take from open source use it and make yourself better. They also added what appears to be a package manager that could help immensely in the business side of things. That is about where the awesome ends.
In initial sign up and boot it tries to trick you into only logging in with a Microsoft account. I just want a local account. I don't know about the many of you but I should easily be able to set up my desktop with out using their sign on account. That is not saying that you can't create a local account but it is rather difficult to find the first time even for a more experienced user. Once on the Desktop you can see many of their ideas of what a normal user would want to use such as a Bing search bar. Who uses Bing? Seriously is this the best way to get people to use it? When I search for items on my desktop I don't want your search function to immediately go out to the internet and use your terrible search engine to try and find that file pron.exe. I can't say no one wants that but no user with an understanding of what your built in spyware is wants that.
They still have that app store though... Good idea I hope they revamp it to make it more usable and curate a little bit in there. I am hoping that with some recent changes in Microsofts behavior, such as sharing coding studio on linux, will continue and they can see that this jump to force convergence isn't necessarily the best thing for users. As I have found with my Linux machines some convergence is nice but total convergence is not yet ready in almost any aspect even though they are pushing heavily for it.
Last but not least we all know they will still not get over the pre-installed bloat from OEMs. Granted this isn't an issue solely on Windows alone or through the upgrade process necessarily. It has been a problem for many many years on all platforms. Microsoft seems to be the least caring about this issue however. I don't need 2 new music players plus the samsung music store and about 30 different dvd burning softwares. Windows comes with all of this built in and the built in versions will undoubtedly be way better than what the OEM may provide. I only have to mention the brief sailfish debacle from Lenovo to remind many that this OEM software isn't always looked upon thoroughly enough to know what exactly it does for us or the OEM.
in conclusion Windows 10 is a vast improvement upon 8 but is still not back to the level of 7, 2000, or 95 was when released. Maybe through out time Microsoft will get to that point again.
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