The Evil of Windows 10.

PoshButNice
PoshButNice Posts: 111 Forumite
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Seems to me windows 10 is tying you into only using (and hence buying) Microsoft applications.

For example try changing your default photo viewer to anything other the the Windows app or the few other apps they list. If the app is not on that list, as many free photo apps are, you are shafted.
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  • PoshButNice
    PoshButNice Posts: 111 Forumite
    Lock Bill Gate up with Hillary!!
  • pogofish
    pogofish Posts: 10,852 Forumite
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    edited 12 October 2016 at 11:59AM
    PoshButNice wrote: »
    For example try changing your default photo viewer to anything other the the Windows app or the few other apps they list. If the app is not on that list, as many free photo apps are, you are shafted.

    Really - I've found no problems with default viewing with over half a dozen other apps/packages that I might use to edit/view images, from major stuff like Photoshop (several versions, some well-old) to little open-source/specialised progs and none of them are standard Microsoft/W10 products.
  • PoshButNice
    PoshButNice Posts: 111 Forumite
    edited 12 October 2016 at 11:59AM
    Yea, it is just I don't like paying for stuff I when there are plenty of free apps available, seem you have more money than .... err... me.
  • ARandomMiser
    ARandomMiser Posts: 1,756 Forumite
    I only use free apps on my home computers all of which run Windows 10 and so far the ones I am using are fine. Maybe some people are not as computer savvy as they think.
    IITYYHTBMAD
  • ossie
    ossie Posts: 354 Forumite
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    edited 11 October 2016 at 6:37AM
    No problem here! RIGHT click picture you want to view, click open with, choose another app, scroll down choose more apps, scroll down again choose look for another app, choose your default app and put tick in box to make it stick!
  • tommix
    tommix Posts: 41,256 Forumite
    edited 11 October 2016 at 9:02AM
    I wouldn't download Win10 for all the tea in china. From the stuff I've read it sounds like a right pain in the posterior..Probably peeps who are computer savvy are Ok with it. I'm not Computer savvy. In fact I'm Computer unsavvy if anything.

    I heard it takes 20 hours to download and goes wrong all the time...Sod that, I'm happy with Win7, I know where I am with it.:beer:
  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
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    The issue is not so much Windows 10.

    Microsoft has lost ground in the retail/consumer space, in recent years. Not just to Apple, but tasks traditionally done by PCs have moved on to Smart Phones and tablet PCs.

    They have to respond.

    Every big player has realised just how important the "Store" is as a revenue generator. Apple also do this. Google have their own.

    It seems inevitable with Windows 10, 11, 12..etc they will push this one-stop-shop as a convenient and ultimately preferable option for all those additional application or media add-ons people buy.
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,268 Forumite
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    edited 11 October 2016 at 9:26AM
    3 computers that could be updated to win 10, 1 was a pain and took 3 goes, 1 just went through no problems, 1 went through with a few things not working properly which were corrected by the recent update. All 3 are working properly now and would not go back to win7 by choice.

    At least with windows you get to choose the make of computer you want and are not stuck with a Mac and the operating system they give you at their highly inflated prices. With a normal computer you can at least change operating system etc.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • schrodie
    schrodie Posts: 8,410 Forumite
    In addition to the Mac OS you can also run Windows on a Mac computer. ;)
  • pogofish
    pogofish Posts: 10,852 Forumite
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    PoshButNice wrote: »
    Yea, it is just I don't like paying for stuff I when there are plenty of free apps available, seem you have more money than .... err... me.

    Anything but! - Most of my image software is free/open source and I only keep Photoshop in older (and far cheaper) versions for a degree of consistency with what I do at work.

    In fact one of the things I like most about W10 is that it has given new life to several XP-era packages that would not run at all under W7.
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