Response from my IT guy. He once was the eight year old who fixed all my
computer problems! See below. Steve kb1chu
If they can get professional versions of windows 10 they can prevent updates from being installed. They can then disable driver signing as well. Probably the only viable workaround at the moment.
On 8/4/2015 11:16 AM, 'Stephen H. Smith' wa8lmf@... [ui-view] wrote:
On 8/4/2015 3:00 AM, lloyd mitchell lmitchell@... [ui-view] wrote:
If you are running Win7 now, I'd go with it. No real reason to change to
Win8 or 10 (at least until more is know about Win10 and its many bugs)
I've already seen folks complaining about a delay start bug on legacy
software and UI-View which is legacy also
It's not just the early adopters' headaches. One also needs to
consider that
Win 10 will be a moving target changing ENDLESSLY with FORCED updates!
Microsoft has stated that Win 10 will be the last discrete version of
Windows
ever. They will be endlessly evolving it with updates, rather than new
major
versions. These updates will be FORCED into your system , with no
choice to
review and opt out of them like previous Windows versions.
(There have already been a chorus of complaints, since the Jul 29th
release, in
the computer/tech media about forced Nvidia video driver updates that
have
broke numerous installations. )
Unless you disconnect a Win 10 system PERMANENTLY from the Internet
(which
would render UIview useless as an igate), you will be dealing with an
endlessly
moving target. I.e. just because you got UIview working with Win 10
this week
won't mean it will work a week, a month or a year later.....
I suspect we will be soon seeing some sort of tricky firewall add-ons
that will
black-hole requests to Microsoft Internet addresses, while allowing
communications elsewhere. There are already third-party utilities to
remove
the nagware to update to Windows 10 that MS has stealth-loaded into
millions of
Win 7 and Win 8 systems in the guise of a "security update". The most
ironically-named one is called "I_DONT_want_Windows_10.exe" .
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