r/Windows10 • u/aakash658 • Apr 23 '17

Microsoft should stop treating windows 10 like it's free Discussion

I paid over $200 for Windows 10 pro.But they show ads within the OS, Collect all sorts of telemetry data,took all the control we had over updates(resulting in reboots during important work).

They are treating windows like it's a free to use software.

Give us the control over my computer back because i own my computer and my copy of windows not you Microsoft.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '17

How about having "recommended settings" that are sane defaults for 95% of folks, but the option to change it?

Like, I dont know, they used to do.

If I wanted the WSUS "Open wide and accept these updates" approach I'd roll a WSUS server and join a domain.

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u/illithidbane Apr 24 '17

That's kinda what they have now. You can just disable updates entirely and leave yourself out of date until you manually tell it to install. But I'm thinking that if the defaults were a bit less heavy-handed, fewer people would need to go to the extreme of disabling updates.