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[–] 3013790? 0 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago 

WTF, what about all the people using software that doesn't run on windows 10?

Lots of scientific and engineering equipment is out there that uses proprietary software that isn't going to get updated. This company does not care about the customer at all.

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[–] B00k3r_D3w1tt 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

To be fair most of those computers are on a domain and therefore don't get a free upgrade.

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[–] moneyshift ago 

Solidworks and Altium, two of the most popular mechanical / EDA packages known to man aren't yet Win10 compatible. I simply cannot upgrade my 8.1 box until they are, and that assumes I want to upgrade at all. Thankfully I intercepted and removed the nagware / forced-update-ware.

M$ not only has no respect for their customers, they have absolutely no fucking idea how people use their software. An OS is not just another application. It should not be updated every other week.

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[–] Ghetto_Shitlord 2 points -2 points (+0|-2) ago 

I work at a research lab, those machines aren't even on our network. If a scientific or engineering system is updated accidentally, it is the IT departments fault for not managing updates.

I am tired of the argument that certain things should be opt in or out, recommended vs optional updates. At some point you have to blame the willful ignorance of the customer. Computers run everything, yet people just feel that they shouldn't know how they function.

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[–] 3023907? ago 

I agree, and I despise the IT department at my school. They are completely incompetent.
However, I am not allowed to have a windows computer on the the network without their 'control' over it. So if I want to say use my shared network drive, I have to sacrifice the control of the computers that run hundreds of thousands of dollars of scientific equipment.

Two years ago some asshole in the IT dep accidentally rolled up all XP computers to Win 7 across the entire campus! It took them months to fix everything they fucked up.

I short, I blame the bureaucracy.