Well Joe, I am sufficiently aware of the security and privacy issues for my needs. This knowledge has been added to as a result of reading Bill D's post and they certainly do bother me such that I am unwilling to risk my privacy or my data to the care of Win 10 especially when Win 7 does everything I need.

We may have differing views and I respect that and as such we will both need to live with the consequences of those views, as with most things in life.

That said there will be 'zillions' of people, 'Catters' included, who simply want to use a computer to write, compose or play music, edit pictures and surf the Internet. They have no need for 'improved customer experiences', as noted in the ongoing changes to the MS Office software interfaces, they just want computer OS's and software that are consistent, work reliably and are secure from third party malware.

These are the folks who are most at risk of harm from the new computing model that underpins Win 10 and I think that Microsoft owes people in this category some kind of "Duty of Care" to be upfront about what the consequences of upgrading to the latest OS or software iteration (i.e. Win 10) might mean for them.

Sadly when it comes to consumer ethics or making mega profits out of user info, data and locking users into a permanent software 'subscription cycle', it is pretty obvious what Wins out.

Anyone contemplating a Win 10 upgrade should reflect on that old adage: "If it aint broke, don't fix it" unless there is evidence of a clear and significant improvement in functionality or other productivity gain. Works for me anyway!

Cheers,

Andrez

PS: On a separate note, Adobe's approach to consumers and software is no better these days either.