Is the upgrade to windows 10 worth it? Have stupid questions

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I know you can change privacy settings. But it's a bit of a minefield, isn't it? You can't be sure what exactly is being sent even after you've changed all the settings you can find. You also can't be sure they won't change the behaviour in a later update, like Facebook does all the time.

Finally, changing privacy settings doesn't alter the legal agreement between you and MS. While you've told the software to not collect some data (or at least you hope you did, but who knows...), you've still legally agreed to let it collect the data.



It pretty much does. I'm not saying they would do that, but it wouldn't be against the licence agreement if they did. Here it is, from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy ... fault.aspx (emphasis mine):



OneDrive is just an example here and - while I'm not a lawyer - I don't think it can be interpreted as applying only to OneDrive. The wording is very broad. How do I know what they consider necessary to provide any service I authorised? What services have I authorised, anyway? Anything contained in the 12,000 word privacy agreement, presumably!

To be fair, a lot of data sharing probably is necessary for some online services. The problem is that they're now so tightly integrated into the OS that you'd have to actively avoid and work around them.

Windows 10 is Microsoft's way of apologizing for that abortion they tried to push on us called Windows 8. I've installed it on my laptop and I like it so far.

I wouldn't upgrade at this point unless you're feeling adventurous. I like using computers and tinkering, so for me it's an obvious choice to upgrade, not to mention fun, but to someone for whom running into any kind of problem is unacceptable, stay away for the time being until most of the issues, bugs, and drivers are worked out and updated. I have a fairly new Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga which was Windows 10 ready on release day, but I still had significant issues upgrading. I ended up getting an error that literally read "something happened" and provided no details as to what was wrong whatsoever. The only thing that got the upgrade to work was doing a clean installation of 8.1 and upgrading right away before installing any updates/applications, and that was after spending quite some time trying everything I could think of before doing that. It's not difficult as far as I know to revert to whatever version of Windows you had prior, but upgrading an OS is something that you should expect problems. It's nice when things work without any issues, but never expect things to just work.

Windows 10 is most certainly worth it in my opinion, but then again, I love computers and have a laptop that converts into a tablet, so I really wanted to take advantage of the new release. If you're going to upgrade, just go in with an open mind. There's nothing wrong with sticking and liking what you're used to, at all, but there's definitely something to be said for having an open mind, willing to learn new ways of doing things.

Please back up all your data though! Even if you aren't upgrading (and especially if you are), it's essential to have backups of your data. It's not a smart idea to have important files in only one location. Your hard drive could fail one day, it could accidentally get deleted, your house could burn down, etc. Better to be safe than sorry.

I already did upgrade. And yes I have everything backed up anyway. It took less than an hour and, other than Cortana apparently not being available in my region (which I think is a lie, but whatever), I've had absolutely no problems whatsoever.

That is certainly the case. Look at similar EULAs for Google Doce, GMAIL, and other such services.


Problem or feature? You just can't save people's files on your server and make them available without accessing them and copying them--that's what storing files consists of. The other stuff people are worried about is Microsoft saying "if the government compels us to give up your data, we will" no surprise there.