<story><title>Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising</title><url>https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/106424/windows-10-tip-turn-off-file-explorer-advertising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elementalest</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m just curios, disregarding performance aspects, what is there to like about w10 over, say w7? Two things that have put me off upgrading to w10 is the inconsistency of the UI, and the fact the user has less control over the system in a variety of ways.</text></item><item><author>cheald</author><text>Totally agreed. I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; like Windows 10 - and then you have things like the advertising, forced resets of default browsers, forced reboots, and other things which, as a power user, do exactly nothing except piss me off.&lt;p&gt;If they just focused on the feature delivery and stopped trying to push their crap, it would be a legitimately great OS. Every time something like this happens, I get a little closer to jumping to a Linux desktop for good.</text></item><item><author>muraiki</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so frustrated with Microsoft. I want to like them -- I&amp;#x27;m using (and loving) C# and Visual Studio, I&amp;#x27;ve used Visual Studio Code with Go and Typescript, I&amp;#x27;m using whatever they call their cloud version control system, and I&amp;#x27;m really enjoying these things... but then they pull moves like this and make me question as to whether I really want to invest my skills and money in their tech. Say what you will about Google&amp;#x27;s data mining, but I think that putting ads right in the OS is in a whole other league. And as many of us geeks know, this is inevitably going to lead to calls from friends and family trying to figure out what the heck this thing popping up is, and if it&amp;#x27;s a virus. &amp;quot;Nope, it&amp;#x27;s just Microsoft.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I feel bad for the MS employees who are making awesome products but then have to deal with all the ridiculous fallout of Windows 10 decisions. Sorry for the rant, but these actions are honestly making me think about discontinuing my use and support of Microsoft&amp;#x27;s products, and I hope that someone somewhere is listening to us geeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lewisl9029</author><text>There are a lot of legitimately great features that have been added for power users and developers since Windows 7. To give a few examples of things I make use of literally every single day:&lt;p&gt;- Windows Subsystems for Linux. I don&amp;#x27;t think this needs any further introduction.&lt;p&gt;- Client Hyper-V. It&amp;#x27;s a type-1 hypervisor that just works out of the box with completely seamless GPU passthrough (only to the root OS, i.e. the Windows 10 instance with Hyper-V enabled, but it&amp;#x27;s enough for gaming and running neural nets). Docker for Windows depends on this.&lt;p&gt;- Storage Spaces. A storage pooling system that supports thin provisioning, mirrored and parity redundancy, tiered caching, bit rot detection and correction (when used with their new ReFS filesystem), and works seamlessly with removable drives (I use a cluster of 2 2.5&amp;quot; external 4TB drives in mirror mode because I travel a decent amount, and 2 2.5&amp;quot; external drives are so much more pleasant to travel with than any NAS on the market).&lt;p&gt;- Huge improvements to window management, including virtual desktops, arrangement by snapping to all 4 corners on every monitor on multi-monitor systems, a super intuitive UI that lets you choose a different window to snap to the other side with 1 additional click, along with keyboard shortcuts for everything.&lt;p&gt;- First class pen support. I have a convertible laptop with a Wacom pen, and some of the features in the ink workspace like sketchpad and screen sketch have become indispensable to my workflow, and so damn convenient to use.&lt;p&gt;Windows 10 really is an excellent OS in its own right. It&amp;#x27;s such a shame that they keep undermining all the progress they&amp;#x27;ve made by pulling crap like this.</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising</title><url>https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/106424/windows-10-tip-turn-off-file-explorer-advertising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elementalest</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m just curios, disregarding performance aspects, what is there to like about w10 over, say w7? Two things that have put me off upgrading to w10 is the inconsistency of the UI, and the fact the user has less control over the system in a variety of ways.</text></item><item><author>cheald</author><text>Totally agreed. I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; like Windows 10 - and then you have things like the advertising, forced resets of default browsers, forced reboots, and other things which, as a power user, do exactly nothing except piss me off.&lt;p&gt;If they just focused on the feature delivery and stopped trying to push their crap, it would be a legitimately great OS. Every time something like this happens, I get a little closer to jumping to a Linux desktop for good.</text></item><item><author>muraiki</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so frustrated with Microsoft. I want to like them -- I&amp;#x27;m using (and loving) C# and Visual Studio, I&amp;#x27;ve used Visual Studio Code with Go and Typescript, I&amp;#x27;m using whatever they call their cloud version control system, and I&amp;#x27;m really enjoying these things... but then they pull moves like this and make me question as to whether I really want to invest my skills and money in their tech. Say what you will about Google&amp;#x27;s data mining, but I think that putting ads right in the OS is in a whole other league. And as many of us geeks know, this is inevitably going to lead to calls from friends and family trying to figure out what the heck this thing popping up is, and if it&amp;#x27;s a virus. &amp;quot;Nope, it&amp;#x27;s just Microsoft.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I feel bad for the MS employees who are making awesome products but then have to deal with all the ridiculous fallout of Windows 10 decisions. Sorry for the rant, but these actions are honestly making me think about discontinuing my use and support of Microsoft&amp;#x27;s products, and I hope that someone somewhere is listening to us geeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Silhouette</author><text>As far as I can tell, 10 has no killer feature, but has incremental improvements in a few areas that will be more relevant to some than others. It has better built-in support for modern hardware: common examples are USB3, NVMe, high-dpi monitors and touchscreens. It has some improvements under the hood in terms of security. It has DirectX 12 for gamers.</text></comment>