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Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage

Brent Beach

Many problems with win10 noted and yes they are problems.

For me though, the big problem is that it has made my two small laptops (netbooks) virtually unusable.

The original article mentions the periods of no response. That comment should be in capitals with exclamation marks.

If I were typing this comment on my win 10 machines it would take 2 or 3 times as long. On this humble win 7 machine, characters appear as they are typed. On my very old XP netbook (1GB, atom processor), characters appear as they are typed. On my two win 10 netbooks, there is almost always a short delay - quarter, half, one second - and sometimes a long delay - 5 seconds. For the first hour or two after the win 10s are turned on from a cold start, the delays can be terrible.

Then of course, when you turn on the netbook and it shows the orange screen installing updates for 20 minutes. Occasionally as long as an hour before you can log in to the machine.

MS has managed to turn my netbooks - both 4 GB 4 core machines - into bricks.

MS has no one to blame but itself for the death of its products.

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