This article, by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at Tech World, really tickled my fancy this morning:
I’ve been hearing a lot from friends recently about how Windows 10 is
the best Windows ever and people would be stupid not to switch. These
being friends, I don’t want to be rude, but — cough, ahem — I don’t buy
it.
Is security your No. 1 concern? Well, Windows 10 is no more
secure than Windows 7 — which is to say it is a profoundly insecure
operating system. There have been a lot of serious Windows security
patches in the last year, and Windows 10 had all the same problems as
Windows 7.
[...]
I also wouldn’t care to be “upgraded” against my will, as happened to
Windows 10 users who had toggled what they needed to toggle to tell
Microsoft, “Please don’t move me from Windows 10 1703, Windows 10 Fall
Update, to 1709, Fall Creators Update.” As my colleague Woody Leonhard points out, this happened via Windows Update with the November patches, when there were “so many issues with this month’s security patches that it’s hard to decide where to begin.”
By the way, I want it on record that I don’t want Windows 10’s rapid release cadence, with its short-lived support timelines.
Two major upgrades — or service patches, as I still think of them — a
year is one too many. I can’t make sure everything works with a
significant update every six months. I don’t know anyone who can.
[...]
What it all adds up to is that, while Windows 10 is certainly a good
operating system, it’s far from great. For the time being, I’m sticking
with Windows 7 on my Windows machines, and I recommend you do too. I
know what to expect from Windows 7, but with Windows 10, every new
forced update is a roll of the dice.
Great stuff, and well worth a read, so
go give the man some clicks. And if you haven't switch from Windows 7 to 10 yet, either... well, I also recommend that you don't. I haven't, and still don't plan to. Not unless Microsoft get a handle on their anti-consumer bullshit, anyway, which doesn't look like it's going to be happening anytime soon.