And always remember,
We should never even consider any of these
Wild conspiracy theories.

For to do so would lead us to the obvious truths.
Just believe as you're told.
I'm gonna post a clip of a marine and a D.C.think tank clown on the
Tall table.

Interesting perspective. Requires a grasp of the overall situation. And that requires a lot of time spent keeping up. I spent that kinda time studying political and economic stuff. Doesnt take long of looking the other way till it's changed... The basics remain the same, but, current events change.

Ok, time for the "out on a limb" predictions

Microsoft, having proven out the tech, is going to go after Vista and XP machines that still have auto update still turned on.   Actually, MS has proven they really can still push to your machine if you have auto update turned OFF, but they may need some new hooks put in the older machines for them to start to do this freely.

Prediction:   That last largest crop of 48 XP updates that got pushed out just two weeks ago included the  "Microsoft may need to update your system to provide you with those updates. By accepting this agreement, you agree to receive these types of automatic updates without any additional notice." click to start approval verbiage and the first of the hooks needed to access your machine freely are already in place.  

You did this pretty much in ignorance, but yes, you did it.    You are already a low level Borgette, but it isn't showing for much yet.

To gain financial benefit from you, MS does not need to give you all of Win 10, they can give you the Borg package instead and get all the goodie from you that way while NOT HAVING TO GO INTO THE HASSLES OF REINVENTING ALL THOSE STRANGE OBSOLETE XP DRIVERS.    You get minimum to no benefits and MS still gets maximum usage of your personal data, your internet connection and your computing equipment.

Serobot asked a little while back "What's with this large 48 item update that got pushed to my XP machine?'

I think this might possibly be a potential answer to his question.   MS needed to put access hooks into your machine and they rode those hooks in on a Critical Security Update that you physically installed because MS said they needed to patch your XP machine for "serious issues".   And indeed, they may have sent a few "fix an issue" things along with the patches, but some of those 48 items were your pre-Borg nanites.

Serobot is now SeroBOT, welcome to the collective --- your charging station is over there against the wall.



"Microsoft may need to update your system to provide you with those updates.   By accepting this agreement, you agree to receive these types of automatic updates without any additional notice."   Having clicked to accept this verbiage just one time, then you will never see another update again -- they will all happen invisibly.

People are reporting their XP machine suddenly getting all slow on them at times ..... wonder what that might be?


       

Stew,

It is too late ---- Microsoft has already downloaded the files to turn you into a Borg.    They are in there on your machine already and you are getting the stream of  (nightly nightmare) updates.   Kiss your data cap good-by.

People had some thoughts about how they could stop the process, but Microsoft very quickly stepped right around those motions and reinstall the things that they had deleted and reactivated the things that they had turned off.  

So they deleted and turned things off again and Microsoft reinstalled and turned things back on again.  

And then Microsoft began locking the settings on them as Verslagen noticed and pointed out.

Microsoft controls your machine now -- not you.

"Trust us." Sez Microsoft ......

Justin, your Kindle runs Amazon's flavor of Android.  This is not a Microsoft product.  The only people you need to be afraid of is Amazon because they are tracking your buying habits and everything else through that tablet.   However Amazon's only interested in your buying habits and they don't get so deep into your knickers like Microsoft does.

Thank you, I am much comforted...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-issues-sidelining-my-surface-3/

Windows 10 glitches have sidelined my Surface 3



OK,  Miss Microsoft has told the world Win 10 is broken (continuously no less) and she's sick of it.   Everyone else is now going to write about their own instability issues now, piling on Microsoft's arse until they start fixing and stabilizing the OS instead of spending all their effort trying to suck more people into it.

This is James Kendrick from Mobile News piling on with this classic "It's Microsoft's very own hardware for chrisssakes !!!"

"In years past, when I talked to others about Windows instability, I would hear that it wasn't Microsoft's fault. There are the hardware vendors, system software, and hardware drivers to blame and this was no doubt part of the problem.

That doesn't apply to my situation with the Surface 3. It's Microsoft's hardware, Microsoft's OS, and Microsoft's responsibility to get the drivers right. On top of that, all of the apps causing my frustration are Microsoft's own. Plus, if the problems arose due to a bad update, that's firmly in Microsoft's lap too.

The fact that my system is all Microsoft makes me think that the company cannot fix Windows, and that makes me both sad and angry."

The point that Mary Jo and James make is very clear -- it used to work correctly, but as MS wags in all these endless nightly fudge patches reliability has gone out window and the stuff just doesn't work right any more.

Hell, I blame it on the Borg -- they run some really alien software and it must be bleeding over into the MS OS since they are lying in bed with the Borg now.

Did Satya actually forget the Borg mantra?   Resistance is futile -- you will be assimilated.   Maybe the Borg feel that their mantra applies equally to MS just as well as all the human customers they have been injecting of late.

Satya, did you even feel the needles in your neck when you got your Borg injection?