Is microsoft evil?

Question

What exactly is it so eager to Autoupdate all the time anyway?

It's like buying an airline ticket that says "benign hijackers included with your flight"

And they own all the d/m/n/ planes.

Is it just me or do people like to LOOK at what's coming in the internet before it-diving into my computer with both feet?

I'm perfectly capable of checking for updates on my own. It's MY frikkin computer. It doesn't belong to microsoft (I don't think microsoft adequately comprehends that concept anymore.) These microsoft control-fr/g/eeks are up to no good. This system is almost set up as SLYware.

I paid for my computer. I paid MICROSOFT for my Windows. I did not (as I recall) pay for microsoft to slink in and bully out tiny clandestine slivers of cpu and browserfunction.

And this Daylight savings time?

Panic panic panic? Must have update?

Hell! You can click on the damn clock and turn DSTime OFF, and change the darn frikkin time yourself! For GodSake!

What a pla

What a planetful of damn lemmings.

Oh good.

thanx
For a moment I was feeling again like i was the only one left with braincells.

Phyew , good to not be the only one.

tobacco
the pharmecudical diet
super lenders
telecommunications deals
microsoft
?

All well-heeled. If burglars come in the door, the first impulse might be to ask if he would like to try on some jewelry I guess.

I don't like mac, bu gOD I hope everyone starts buying them. Lord knows we need it.

They made that cool laptop with the magnetic foolproof power cord, didn't they?

If you have an oil tank in your house, do you let him in and then let the oil man rearrange your furniture to his liking

as long as he doesn't "damage" anything?

I probably SHOULD be tempted to switch to mac, but they bugged me off over a decade ago when there was no serious care to make it all compatible.

There are standards, and then their are betamax and 8-tracks.
This is probably were the soft mass of self-hypocracy takes root in me with all manner of dead-to-the-core obstinacy.

You mac people have more courage than i do. And you're probably the force that one year will solve the mindnumbing microsoft complacency.

Just thinking of those mac commercials now is the other thing making me feel a bit better now.

I hope their stock goes up.

Mind you eveybody, in this one example,

i don't even really giveacrap about updates, I just think its the decent thing to do to offer the option of having each update explained before I take it. And each one have a name. And I can take it off later if I myself consciously decide I'm not impressed with whatever it makes different.

I pay hundreds of daollars for a computer, I don't want it's behavior changing THAT magically from day to day to day on its own.

If I want a mystifying magic show. I'll go pay to watch a guy pull a rabbit out of his hat.
I don't need this coddling hocus pocus always jabbing at me on my system.

Answer 1

i dont have these problems, i did but switched to mac...no daylight savings problem or screwed up updates or any of that

Answer 2

Microsoft is evil because i9t won't leave things the same.

The one thing that ruins any long-term scientific study is change. Everything must be the same from beginning to end for the study to be valid. it is called "ceteris parabus" - all else is unchanged.

Microsoft and the rush to newer and better has made a 10-year study very difficult and a 20-year study impossible.

We started a 20-year study in 1995. We made sure to have many spare identical devices and computers, but Microsoft and the rush to newer and better destroyed the study before it was 10 years old:

1. Microsoft stopped providing and providing support for Windows 3.1 in 2003.

2. Computer makers stopped providing the ISA bus (needed by the hardware) around 2002.

3. All of the computers originally purchased for the study (including the spares) had failed by 2007.

4. No computers available in 2007 could take the special card for the lab equipment. None of them could correctly run Windows 3.1 either.

5. All of the lab equipment still works in 2015, but no computers can be found to control it.

The nerds who want the latest and greatest have destroyed science.

Computer and software makers should be required to provide replacement parts and software support for 20 years, so science can be done.

Also, Microsoft is costing us billions in tax dollars by requiring upgrades.

Answer 3

Well on the other hand to tell you the truth since I bought this PC four years ago and one only initial virus at the beginning ,never have I encounter any problems , nor virus or spam have bothered me , and I attribute it to the constant automatic upgrade that comes on a weekly basis usually in the early morning , it is free and keeps my computer up graded with the latest of possibilities , "don't slap in the mouth a gift horse" it does not do any damage as I see to receive up grades , But if you don't want them just elect not to receive an automatic upgrade and save your self an unnecessary ulcer over it , good luck.

Answer 4

You can turn off auto update or configure it to ask you which ones you want to install. With a good firewall, you can restrict anyone from accessing your computer, including Microsoft. MS and all their updates and fixes are a pain, but if your worried about them or anyone else getting into your stuff, copy it to a CD or
floppy.
I'm more pissed about the government listening in on my cell phone conversations, I don't have a choice about that so as far as being evil, MS is not so bad.

Answer 5

People feel stuck with no choice.
Its my computer and I use it. I want to allow what I want, and panic is a tool used to confuse and outwit already confused people. Sad for consumers, and aweful of big companies. Just think about tobaco companies!

Answer 6

If Microsoft seems evil, why not switch to Mac? That is why there are choices.
Coke-Pepsi, Intel-AMD, Budweiser-Coors.........................

Answer 7

lol...i think u have a point there.....totally agree with u