Microsoft gifting Windows 10 for FREE even Pirates. Keep away from Win 10!

The operating system is free because they sell you apps or free games that cost you 10 times as much to unlock all the levels as if you bought the game outright. It's freeware.

Well people like free shit, the problem is the long term cost will be huge.

I found this comment on an article about win 10 being free and I think this guys nails down what is coming with win 10.

"As for the PC side, MSFT knows they lost the trust of the vast majority of PC users with Windows 8 and the vision they are still trying to force on everyone. Their only hope is to give it away for free, hope enough people upgrade and then slowly force their cloud, touch based garbage on everyone all while under the belief that they need the make the OS to do more and more for us.

Also, who DOESNT know that MSFT is going to turn the OS into a subscription based OS for revenue? Serioulsy...its been in the corporate vision section of their website for a year now and even Nadella put it in his letter to the company when announcing the layoffs...he said the future of the PC OS is a subscription based future"
[link to www.fool.com]

And there it is in black and white "PC OS is a subscription based future"

You people, jesus.

It's not hard to secure a box from the NSA's prying eyes.
If you are REALLY concerned about security (which I seriously doubt any of you are...how many of you have PGP public key ring?)

Get you a good stateful firewall - their are many that you plug directly in-line with your router (and they aren't expensive) to stop any spurious connections to and from your box.

You can setup IP and domain name blocking so any .gov or .mil or *.Microsoft.com domains will NEVER connect or communicate with your box.

So smarten up chaps, it's just another shitty Microsoft product.

Free for a year. Plus have you seen what Microsoft is intended to do?

Lumia 430, 70 bucks with W10.
Hololens with W10.
Xbox One connected with W10.
New browser with W10.
Cortana with W10 (the most awesome part of this)
Gates working into a super personal agent capable of stuff not even Apple can imagine.
Full compatibility between devices (PC, Laptops, Phones, Tablets, Video game Console)

And more stuff to come, ask yourself why in W8 they did not listen costumer about Start menu, and other stuff, but in W10 it seems they are starting to care.

Or is Microsoft trying to destroy all opposition, trying to make you think Singularity will be awesome, or it's working super hard with NSA/OrOtherSuperSecretAgency to create one of the most evil software in the world.

I had Ubuntu on one of my old PCs that doesn't even have a hard drive (Ubuntu worked great at the time - but still too corporate.) I just tried Linux Mint and I am loving it. It's seamless, lightening fast, and gorgeous!!

Good people of GLP -- it's time to dump the corporate surveillance arm of the Big Brother State and go 100% open source!! I'm ready to leave Windows behind for good and Apple has never interested me.

I'm an old school sub 7 hax0r.

they have been spying on people since rotary phones.

when you hang up, the speaker still sent audio

Also dual boot XP or Win7 and Mint 17.1. Mint is very usable.

to me win 7 is still perfect. It runs all my apps and games. I don't have to have a windows logon or to use their windows store. As soon as I seen that windows store I got a little sick feeling in my stomach when I was trying out my dads win 8.x os.. I get that they wanna keep up with androids play store and apple store but what the fuck, those are mobile os'es. I don't want that bull shit on my home pc which is why windows 7 is perfect imo.

I think they whole thing will shift into blocking piracy at the os level and they will eventually require authorization for every app installed, probably will block torrents and other shit. This might even be in development for the new internet neutrality and taxing system they got a hard on over. And I fully expect to see everyone have to log in to use a pc on the internet so you are tracked heavily in what you do.. I remember years ago bill gates had a hard on for keyboards with finger print scanning tech to log on to a pc, they said in the future that it was coming and I think they have big plans for this new win 10 os..

TBH, why upgrade, if everything they need runs happily on XP? It's stable, fast, uses drastically less resources than newer versions of Windows.

Like to add, installed Mint 17.1 on a 64gig SDHC chip.

ya and what happens to your privacy when they require each user who logs in to identify themselves with either a credit card or biometric scan of some type.. Your token rings won't secure shit then bud. Everyone will eventually need to i.d themselves when they log on so they can be tracked. Win 10 is the NSA's wet dream come true, that is why it will be free and it will be nearly impossible to pirate anything.

They are giving it away because they know they will lose major market share to free operating systems like Linux, and Google's operating systems.

Windows 8 was poorly received and they couldnt recover from its damaged public view.

Google has rapidly outstripped both Microsoft and Mozilla in the browser department with little effort. So the same can easily happen with operating systems, and thats something that Microsoft doesnt want to happen.


Its definitely a pre-emptive attack on other OS developers and its a smart move on Microsoft's part.

Its the first time they've actually done something intelligent and made the right business choice.

[link to www.engadget.com]

There ya go: Good bye privacy: "Windows 10 for release later this year, just announced that its next-gen OS will include built-in support for several alternative log-in options, including fingerprint, facial and iris recognition."

You are so full of shit. You have no idea what you are talking about. Token Rings are a network protocol, you dumbshit - not a PGP public key ring. PGP (Pretty good Privacy) Key rings are PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). Using a 4096-bit RSA key it'd take the NSA *BILLIONS* of years to crack it.

So you go on pretending to know what the fuck you are talking about, when in reality everyone who does is laughing at you.

These "Don't get the next version of Windows threads" are getting OLD.

It's REALLY simple. If you don't like Windows feel free to go with another OS.

They aren't giving you the next version free to spy on you. They want to get everyone on the same platform so that they can push you into their unified apps ecosystem.

Look at Apple with Mac OSX. It went free some versions back. I don't hear anyone on here saying NSA doom about it.

Ya it is a LAN protocol that doesn't affect your internt ipv4 or 6 protocol you dumb ass. So ya you Local network is secure, but beyond your modem to the net, you are no longer in a token ring using encryption, and it is mainly used to pass data around a local network at the same time so there is no data collision.

Yard I'm 40 and still love gaming over non interactive teevee. Been collecting games since 93.

HAHAHA. Thats funny Linux catching up to Windows? As far as what games? The *nixs have been far ahead of windows for years. They each have their pros and cons. Stability wise, *nixs have been far superior for many years.

Actually what I would say the case is, you finally figured how to use it.

This ^

Windoze is so yesterday and sucks so badly that they will have trouble GIVING it away!

Just like the gaming industry with its beta versions paid full price for and after some patches they start to work, the os industry is going to release beta versions of their O.S and let everyone beta test for them for free and then charge to get the cloud worked on finish 1 year project. Dload it and work for it you bug swashing beta tester betas and come join the beaten lining up for more action at the birthday party.

I used to work at Microsoft and live in the area. They are not that smart

LOL you really have no idea what you are talking about do you.

It's just an effort to move everyone over to a subscription model to generate recurring revenue. It's no different than what they've done with Office 365, or what Adobe has done with their Creative Cloud applications.

There's no way to move to a subscription with the existing OS versions, thus the "giveaway". It's just a loss leader to try to establish a new model.

It is also getting increasingly difficult to develop applications for the increasingly disparate UIs across versions, and so this will help developers more easily write to a common interface across touch and mouse/keyboard interfaces.

Look, I'm not saying MS is some altruistic entity, but not EVERYTHING is a conspiracy, you know?

Apple's OSX has been giving away annual operating system updates for years.

So MS is just catching on?

give me a name, what to look for.

Windows is so 2002, man! This is 2015, man!

It's a scam....don't fall for it.

Kinda lulzy, since windows 7 had support for fingerprint recognition as well.

sub7 hacker? I think you mean script kiddie, lol.