08-09-2016, 21:39
They're marvellous for things like that 
8.1 is good if you're using a touch screen I think, all the fancy apps and bollox are disabled on mine, and it only downloads updates. I choose what gets installed!!
I've been down that road with Microsoft before. They made it mandatory after Windows XP for updates to download automatically after so many users suffered from various exploits in their system, as XP didn't even ask you if you wanted to check for updates never mind download them.
Windows 7. Which imo is the best platform they created, almost fool proof. Is now called Legacy, many modern PC's are deliberately designed to make it as difficult as possible for you to use an earlier edition of Windows.
Makes you wonder why they'd do such a thing
Windows 8.1 has yet to be perfected and they were already on to Windows 10
8.1 is good if you're using a touch screen I think, all the fancy apps and bollox are disabled on mine, and it only downloads updates. I choose what gets installed!!
I've been down that road with Microsoft before. They made it mandatory after Windows XP for updates to download automatically after so many users suffered from various exploits in their system, as XP didn't even ask you if you wanted to check for updates never mind download them.
Windows 7. Which imo is the best platform they created, almost fool proof. Is now called Legacy, many modern PC's are deliberately designed to make it as difficult as possible for you to use an earlier edition of Windows.
Makes you wonder why they'd do such a thing
Windows 8.1 has yet to be perfected and they were already on to Windows 10
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