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Microsoft Says Windows 10 PCs 'Do More' Than Macs in Latest Ads

I don't usually post but here goes:

I do like Windows 10. The Start Menu is a little slower then i would like but its definitely a step up from Windows 8 and some improvements over 7. Do I prefer a Mac, oh definitely yes. BUT I do believe the one feature missing from Mac line is something similar to a Surface. I do a lot of traveling. I have a 2011 Macbook Pro. It's time for an upgrade. She sports 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. But the hardware is old. I have used a Surface and love it. To me it is a laptop replacement. What i would love to see is a Macbook Air with detachable keyboard. I see a lot of people say they don't want to touch their screens. I get it then lets use a Pen or something. Think of it, a Macbook Air that has detachable screen would give the Surface a run for its money because again Mac's run Windows :). An iPad just isn't a laptop replacement :(. That's just "my" opinion/suggestion.
 
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ppcebay said:
Shhhh!! it's not cool to say that the newer version are better, people like the old way of bashing Winblows!! Are you crazy? It's from Micro$oft (i hate when they call it that :D)!!


On a serious note I too have good experience with Win 10 at work, the best Windows yet!


Never happened here, are you sure you do not have a pirated "special" edition?
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I've got legitimate Windows 10 Pro on a Surface Pro 3 and I keep getting ads for Tomb Raider on my lock screen.
 
ISanych said:
I liked apple hardware, but not software (mainly obsession with control and knowing what I want better than me). I've switched from iMac to self built pc with GTX 970 (but I still use MBA when travel, again with windows), switched from iPhone to big screen android long before apple introduced 6+, the only apple hardware which I still use a lot is iPad (currently Air, and iPads 3 & 1 still used by family) - but now there are good non apple tablets, so there is a chance that next tablet also will be not from apple.
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It's more about me being accessible to others. Whether they use imessage, skype, google, etc. An iphone or mac can do it all. What you can do is more determined by user really. I don't see leaving Apple anytime soon as long as friends and family use those devices.
 
aajeevlin said:
"most obnoxious notification system in earth." This gets me the most. I get it, I'm not using win10, I don't want to OKAY! Stop telling me every other day to switch, with your little pop-up.
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Oh I'm talking about Windows 10 itself. Every minor thing that happens results in a "DUN DUN DUN" sound and a long notification pop up. I've disabled it for everything I can yet they still occur. Even just that fact that they think anyone would want the defiant setting is mind boggling.
 
And they also spy on you more (from a company that has tripled-down on spying as a business model)!

I've been enthusiastically building my own PCs for work and play for 23 years (not including countless laptops). Throughout that whole time, every few years I'd look forward to putting together the latest round of cool parts to build a new system and donate the old one. I'm on an 'old' i5-2500K system now, and for the first time in 23 years I have neither interest in nor intention to build another PC as long as Microslop continues down this road of unabashed, brazen violation of basic expectations for computing privacy.

Yet another reason Apple is getting my voting dollars today and for the foreseeable future.
 
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Their advertising points are:

Touchscreen. Yep, my Windows 10 laptop has one. It's kind of neat - I think I would use it more, except for the fact my two external screens are just normal screens - only the one built into the laptop has touch. I find it annoying alternating between being able to touch stuff and not touch stuff, so I generally just use my mouse instead.

Voice. I never use this at all. I have Cortana disabled. I don't want to add noise pollution to my office. I might use Siri on my iMac at home should Apple add it in OS X 10.12, but probably not.

Office. Uh... Windows 10 doesn't come with Office included. You can pay for Office 365 on OS X or Windows (or Android or iOS). Macs actually come with iWork for free.

I'll give them half a point for the Touch screen, nothing for voice, and take away a full point for the lies about Office. Net score of -.5
 
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The thing that really bugged me about Windows in the past was how quickly the system would slow down. In a matter of months. I would need to reinstall everything manually to make it quick again. My Mac seems much less prone to this problem.
 
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cardfan said:
It's more about me being accessible to others. Whether they use imessage, skype, google, etc. An iphone or mac can do it all. What you can do is more determined by user really. I don't see leaving Apple anytime soon as long as friends and family use those devices.
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Well, I use only cross-platform communication tools: emails & skype - so no issues for me. The only thing which I miss that I cannot use gorgeous iMac screen as monitor, even when I have thunderbolt in my PC.
 
Windows has always done more that Macs.

If everything anyone wanted was "doing more" everybody would eat dinner with a swiss army knife instead of a regular knife.

It's kind of sad they still don't understand these things after all these years.
 
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jazstudio said:
I don't want to touch my laptop screen. I'm actually a bit obsessive about seeing dust and fingerprints on it. That feature doesn't appeal to me at all.
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That's my hell... people that need to show me something on the screen at work and actually touch my monitors when a simple hover or a description of what they're looking at would work... or on super thin laptops where the keys leave square marks on screen... insanity. You aren't alone my friend.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
I'll give them half a point for the Touch screen, nothing for voice, and take away a full point for the lies about Office. Net score of -.5
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Yeeech. I give them -10 for having a Franken-UI touchscreen interface that doubles as a desktop interface. My elderly aunt has a touchscreen Windows PC and it made teaching her how to use her computer twice as hard because she gets completely flustered by the competing input methods. She gets used to touching everything and then gets completely stuck when she runs into a mouse only interface.
 
*music starts*
1st Girl: Oh look! Network packets headed off to Microsoft! What's that?

2nd Girl: In an attempt to learn more about its users, Windows sends keyboard input and file Samples off to Microsoft!

1st Girl: Oh wow! Not even the new Macs do that!
 
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Michaelgtrusa said:
Mac VS PC lives.
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Water is wet.

There is a slight opening for increased Mac market share (although a widespread event(s) may force MSFT to reverse course) for users who abhor mandatory, automatic updates. I'm one who was pushed to Mac. Apple's recent turd didn't help them, but then again, it was a reminder to never auto-update and that you don't have to on a Mac.
 
Wild-Bill said:
Waiting until June to update their antiquated lineup is just unacceptable.
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I'm still rocking a 2012 MBP. I'm a developer. I'm waiting for the Skylakes to have better options for external displays. Intel has to release the chips first before there's really anything to upgrade. Speed bumps don't really move things forward much anymore.
 
cardfan said:
But then they introduce an ipad pro and kb that offers that same impractical experience with no trackpad so you have to touch the screen.
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A reasonable person can disagree, but I think the iPad pro user is not likely to use the touchscreen aspects while in keyboard mode. I am not in the "pro" target demographic, so I have no first hand use, but I have been using an ipad since the iPad 2 came out and rarely have I ever used touch screen functions while typing.
 
Well with all the negative press they're getting due to all the spyware they built into Windows 10 and are in the process of slipping into 7 and 8 I guess they really do need some ads to boost their public image.

Seriously thou, while I don't applaud Apple for the way they've turned minimalism in terms of physical IO into a general trend, I do applaud them for understanding that trying to make an OS that tries both be a proper desktop OS and a tablet OS is just going to end up doing both jobs in a mediocre way. If I want a tablet, I'll buy a tablet and if I want a laptop, I'll buy a laptop.
 
I think with Apple entangled with all the "sideshow" issues going on you'll see MS putting on a full court press to promote their OS.
The next 12m will be a huge test to see how well Apple can adjust given their huge growth over the past years. :apple:
 
thatanonymoususer said:
*music starts*
1st Girl: Oh look! Network packets headed off to Microsoft! What's that?

2nd Girl: In an attempt to learn more about its users, Windows sends keyboard input and file Samples off to Microsoft!

1st Girl: Oh wow! Not even the new Macs do that!
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Can confirm the 'telemetry' on Windows 10 is downright terrifying.

I found, even using a local account, even after disabling everything in ShutUp10, Windows 10 still managed to send a fair bit of traffic back to Microsoft about God knows what.

If you care about your privacy, you shouldn't use Windows 10.
 
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