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[TheBoy]

Yeah, no point in making something more secure and then providing a means to use something less secure 

I agree, but if MS banned Firefox, or the particularly insecure Chrome, I suspect there would be uproar.

I guess small steps - make Edge the default, and slowly websites will start to drop the plugins, then we can lose the plugins.  Plus MS *HAD* to be more Enterprise friendly than there they were with Win8, and there will be a load of large corporations reliant on Java and the like for ages.

[TheBoy]

There's no Media Centre with Win 10 though is there? I use that everyday and don't want to lose it.

Correct. That's why my Media Center remains Win7 until 2020

[Steve B]

There's no Media Centre with Win 10 though is there? I use that everyday and don't want to lose it.

Correct. That's why my Media Center remains Win7 until 2020

Is that when the updates come to a end ?

[zirk]

There's no Media Centre with Win 10 though is there? I use that everyday and don't want to lose it.

Plex works well once you get your teeth into it, 

[TheBoy]

There's no Media Centre with Win 10 though is there? I use that everyday and don't want to lose it.

Plex works well once you get your teeth into it, 

Current lacks the "just works" (or did about a year ago) that the integrated MCE offers, though I'm sure they'll all improve.

[Gaffers]

The last MS bulletin had an urgent update for Edge due to an identify theft issue.

Make sure you update it as soon as you install it.

[tigers_gonads]

Slightly off topic but thinking i'll get a question here faster 

The lad has Win 8 on his desktop.
It ran with no problems until he took up the option of upgrading to Win 10.

Win 10 in itself worked great BUT would Microsoft hell as let him register it 
The desktop was a 400 quid Aldi special and came with OEM Win 8 as standard.
It accepted all updates too so that version seems to have been working okay.

After trying to update it many times either via the web or using the helpline, he gave up and wound it back to Win 8.1 again 

Anybody know of a fix for this ?

Tbh, Microsoft have been trying to force the update onto my Win7 laptop recently through the update feature 
So far, i've resisted by catching it mid update but sooner of later it will probably manage to sneak in   

[STEMO]

I have no such problems with my ancient PC running 7. It won't let me update to 10 because the Nvidea? graphics/display are too old. 

[TheBoy]

Slightly off topic but thinking i'll get a question here faster 

The lad has Win 8 on his desktop.
It ran with no problems until he took up the option of upgrading to Win 10.

Win 10 in itself worked great BUT would Microsoft hell as let him register it 
The desktop was a 400 quid Aldi special and came with OEM Win 8 as standard.
It accepted all updates too so that version seems to have been working okay.

After trying to update it many times either via the web or using the helpline, he gave up and wound it back to Win 8.1 again 

Anybody know of a fix for this ?

Tbh, Microsoft have been trying to force the update onto my Win7 laptop recently through the update feature 
So far, i've resisted by catching it mid update but sooner of later it will probably manage to sneak in   

Did he attempt an in place upgrade on a good, working Win8, or rebuild to W10?  If the latter, that won't work  *UNTIL*  that specific PC has been through the former first

[tigers_gonads]

Slightly off topic but thinking i'll get a question here faster 

The lad has Win 8 on his desktop.
It ran with no problems until he took up the option of upgrading to Win 10.

Win 10 in itself worked great BUT would Microsoft hell as let him register it 
The desktop was a 400 quid Aldi special and came with OEM Win 8 as standard.
It accepted all updates too so that version seems to have been working okay.

After trying to update it many times either via the web or using the helpline, he gave up and wound it back to Win 8.1 again 

Anybody know of a fix for this ?

Tbh, Microsoft have been trying to force the update onto my Win7 laptop recently through the update feature 
So far, i've resisted by catching it mid update but sooner of later it will probably manage to sneak in   

Did he attempt an in place upgrade on a good, working Win8, or rebuild to W10?  If the latter, that won't work  *UNTIL*  that specific PC has been through the former first

This one as far as I know 
The pc was running okay (if slow probably due to the amount of Nokia / Blackberry/ QT app software ect crap on the desktop)
I believe he just hit the Win 10 update and let it download 
It did work perfectly well (and much faster) on Win10
It just wouldn't let him register it within the required timeframe so he wound it back to 8.1

I'll have a word when he gets his arse out of bed later and see if I got all this right