Microsoft Admits It “Went Too Far” with Aggressive Windows 10 Updates

[Paul123]

It's fast and I like Windows 10 (using it now), however in terms of performance and stability, theoretically Windows 7 should be the winner since it wasn't unstable and had less functionality (therefore less things need to be patched and less exploitable features).

What you said is very true, and I think another reason people didn't want to upgrade. Windows 7 was very good, and there's the old saying 'if it ain't broke, dont fix it' People didn't see the need to upgrade, and also Win 7 was better looking. I love windows 10, but I must admit the flat Metro icon idea didn't appeal, though I'm getting used to it and starting to like it. Also Windows 10 feels unfinished - the icons are inconsistent (some metro, some not), I can't help feeling it was rushed out to remove all traces of Windows 8.

I think Microsoft learnt a valuable lesson from Windows 8 to listen to your consumers. I think the low-point was when they grudgely gave back the start button on windows 8, but gave it in such a way it wasn't what the consumers wanted, it just took you to the metro screen.

 

[Handsome Recluse]

I love Windows 10, its incredibly stable and seems a lot faster than windows 7 was on my laptop. That said I know a lot of people that just wanted to stay on Windows 7, I think though a lot was due to Windows 8 being so terrible - I tried to like it, but struggled with its complete lack of intuitiveness and reverted back to windows 7. I think this put people off even trying windows 10, which is a shame. There were other things though, windows 10 comes with Cortana switched on, and web searching in the start menu search, both of these I switched off, but a lot of people I talked to who upgraded to win 10 then went back to win 7, complained about windows 10 being slow, and I can't help feeling it was because of this. Without both these options on my windows 10 went from sluggish to turbo charged.

I think now windows 10 has been around a while now, a lot of those people who were put off initially would upgrade

Well, Cortana isn't supported in my region.
I like Windows 10 except some sluggishness in different places than Windows 7 and the forced updates. Only critical updates should be forced at least.