Many People Refuse the Free Windows 10 Upgrade, Here’s Why

I just did not want to try whether my old 2GB netbook would actually run Win 10. It's painfully slow on Win 7 as it is.

Also, I remember hearing that Microsoft told manufacturers not to allow more than 2GB in netbooks as they might have cannibalised the laptop market otherwise. So in that sense, it's their fault I don't upgrade.

As a generally happy Windows 10 users I still think Windows have some important decisions to be done.

1.) Make very clear, very strict rules about what all the collected data: who can see what, what can it be used for, how long before what is tossed away.

2.) Reign in creative businesspeople: when I start to get ads on the login screen of my Windows Pro licensed machine without even being asked then somebody needs to learn about eating and having cake.

FWIW, I am done with MS, I don't want to be the product. Win7 is my last MS OS so I am moving to Linux in 2020 unless Win7 support is extended.

I really like Windows 10 on my Surface. But on my 4 year old Samsung with heavily customized Samsung-built software that controls much of the functionality of the laptop, I can't risk moving to Windows 10 and not having any of it work. And there's no chance Samsung will update it.

I'm still on Windows 7. Windows 8 was such a disaster that if Windows 10 has any pieces of Windows 8 in it, I don't want any part of it.

And then, after all of those disastrous forced upgrades, I simply don't trust Microsoft anymore. I'm on Windows 7 until I somehow accidentally upgrade.