Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20150904120435/@comment-3547390-20150907112942

I doubt it will ever be impossible to go with Windows 7.

Windows 10 and all doesn't help things. It sounds better than Windows 8 in interface, but the problem is that we don't get control over our computers anymore. I think you need to have enterprise to deactivate something that will automatically send information to Microsoft. There are ads on the start screen, now when you search you will look in the Windows Store and online as well (this is talked about like a feature, yet if I wanted to find either of these I would go to the proper place, so clustering them so it makes it harder to find my computer files or make it so I accidentally buy an app is not a feature), and we get Cortana (voice recognition, yay, except for the fact that it rarely ever works right and is frustrating enough on a phone with a limited number of files).

Exactly, virtual machines seem to function very well. I would like to deactivate the control panel, yet I never really got that serious with VMs either, tending just to use them more for a quick testing environment or for the odd game in a very small resolution. I also have learned not to bother with Windows Update in my virtual machines, it is bad enough to wait for your main machine, it becomes tedious when you need to wait for one of your several VMs.