GWX.EXE, Get Windows10 (X being the Roman numeral for 10 – hey now, isn’t that clever.) Rrrriighht. So, Microsoft, you’re now using Windows Update to install adware/nagware? It came as no surprise to me that this new annoyance doesn’t inject itself into the startup in a way that’s easy to find and undo, adware always makes its removal non-trivial; after all, that’s what makes it adware, right?
So let me guess, you think that because you’re giving Windows10 away for “free” there should be no reason it’s not ok to nag everybody into “upgrading”? Who could possibly object, right? “We’re givin it to yous for nuttin, so now yous owes us,” hmm? Well think again, M$, think the fuck again.
The thing is, I have no desire to learn another UI. Your last attempt was horrible and stupid, and your unprecedented offer Win10 as freeware fills me with distrust, dread and loathing – I haven’t even tried to imagine your end game, but as sure as I will continue to run Win7 until I’m damn good and ready to switch, that end game is not just going to suck, it’s going to suck hard, in multiple ways.
More, I truly despise playing hide and seek with all the settings and system functions, that you’ve changed just to make them different. If you genuinely found ways to make things more intuitive it would be one thing, but think about it: what could possibly be more intuitive than the way I’ve done it 1000 times before? Or the other side of the coin, what could be less intuitive than changes merely for the sake of change?
Still again some more, I’m not at all prepared to endure all the pedantic, useless, fucked-up UI overhead you continue to add, trying to spoon feed concepts I already understand to the masses. People will always need techs and consultants, you will never change that, get real with it. In a futile attempt to bring it home for users that aren’t even technically inclined, you burden experts with bullshit tedium. Equitable… in a pig’s eye. And to top it off you couldn’t possibly know how wearing it is to discover all the software that this new version has orphaned and forced into obsolescence, but it takes its toll for sure. In a word, it’s disheartening.
In short I will stick with Windows7 until I see a clear advantage to using something else, and you will not nag me into doing otherwise. Why? Because fuck you, that’s why! It’s my choice, not yours, and no, I don’t give a damn about your shareholders!
I may wipe my Vista partition and install Win10 on it, I may even do so before I absolutely need to, hard to say, I’m still too pissed off to think that far into the future. I may not be able to avoid testing on Win10, but god damned if I will run it to work in, until and unless I genuinely want to.
In the meantime I will dispatch your nagware as I always, always do, to lame annoying nagware. Because nagware sucks, universally, regardless of author, and especially when it abuses trust to get installed.
In closing, Micro$uck, should you find yourself again in a position to ponder the question, to nag or not to nag… before you even think about design and implementation, here’s a better course of action: why don’t you just go outside and play hide and go fuck yourselves?