Windows 10

[Ughmahedhurtz]

We're starting to see the bugs pop up now, though I have not experienced any issues.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/08/...10bugs-emerge/
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/08/0...-pcs-unusable/
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/74...s-and-more.htm

I am concerned about the claims that FireFox is making.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/0...e-and-control/

Is Microsoft really going to throttle their competitors again?

Considering Win10 changed several default apps in my upgrade from Win7; notably Edge instead of Chrome, OneNote App Store version instead of OneNote 2013 Desktop, Groove Music Player vs Windows Media Player Desktop, MSPaint vs Paint.net, etc. including several Microsoft desktop apps, I'm going to go with that old saying "never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by error." Unless you're suggesting that Microsoft purposely went through every possible app setting and made sure to change them all to MS app-store apps?

I can't recall an OS upgrade that didn't require me to tweak settings here and there, and with the introduction of the Windows app store thingy and its app versions of already existing desktop apps, I am wholly unsurprised. Frankly, considering the changes between Win7 and Win10 versus, say, XP and Win7, I'm pleased with how relatively painless things went.

Bugs? Of course.
Monopoly malfeasance? [Citation Needed].

[edit] Final thought: device instability is almost guaranteed to be a driver compatibility issue. Microsoft can supply class-level drivers natively but unless the vendor worked directly to get updated stuff into WindowsUpdate and/or made sure to fix up their downloadable drivers to work properly with Win10, expected results are expected. The WiFi problems are a perfect example of this. Anyone remember when Windows 64-bit showed up? Yeah. I'm gonna go with New OS Growing Pains for $500, Alex. I'll also leave you with this: how many people are getting Win10 for free on systems that barely supported Win7? Are we seeing the same level of bug reports on OEM systems that came preinstalled with Win10? I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess not, based on official threads like this.