Originally Posted by
Clubman
By "forcing" I ment that most likely in 2 years time new MOBO'S, CPU'S and piece of hardware can be only ran on Win10
I can't see many mobo/CPU/GPU manufacturers risking losing their valued Linux customers. Consumer computing devices, like laptops and tablets, may become more locked down to their original operating systems (like Apple phones/tablets, Blackberry devices, Chromebooks etc. already are) but I can't see it happening to individual components simply because a) there is a small but very vocal enthusiast community that would kick off, and b) MS can't afford to pay all the different manufacturers to lock their hardware to Windows, and if one manufacturer isn't locked, none of them will be as it would be a competitive disadvantage.
Besides, if hardware vendors do lock their hardware to Windows 10, that's the vendor doing that, not Microsoft. If you want hardware that's not locked to Windows 10, tell hardware vendors that. In the mean time, as others have mentioned, you have the option to use a flavour of linux, or Haiku, or even ReactOS. Or buy a Windows 7 license now (ebuyer has a number of OEM Windows 7 options still available) and don't install it until after 2nd August, when the free upgrade will have finished and MS won't force anything on you unless you give them money (in fact, you might want to buy 2 copies so you've got one for your next computer too).
Originally Posted by
Clubman
... And I only ment that Windows 10 collects more data about you now than ever before ... From what I've watched and heard about it,you need to uncheck a lot more things about privacy information to be collected and stored from Microsoft. ...
And that point I completely agree with. But it's not what you said - you said "Windows 10
reveals all their private information
to the rest of the world". That's a hugely different statement to "Windows 10 sends a lot of private information back to Microsoft for storage".
As to permission - Windows 10 has a EULA, and a number of other terms documents, that you are presented with during install and you have to read and agree to if you want to use Windows 10. So it doesn't do anything "without asking for permission". It's true that the majority of users won't do proper due diligence and find out exactly what they're agreeing to, but if you install Windows 10 you're agreeing to all those terms and conditions which means you are giving MS permission to collect that data (and, incidentally, change the terms and conditions unilaterally without advance warning).
There are genuine reasons to be concerned about some of MS's decisions when it comes to Windows 10, and I absolutely support the view of anyone who has concerns based on actual fact. But I'd urge everyone to find out what those facts are before making a decision either way, and before making sweeping statements that simply don't tell the proper story. "Reveal to the whole world" is very different to "collect and store for unclear purposes" - both are of concern, but the appropriate responses are quite different, and it matters which of those is true.