I could be mistaken, but should you be married if you need to hide your porn collection from your wife? I have no experience on the matter fwiw.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/02/1408113/-Windows-10-comes-with-built-in-spyware-If-your-work-requires-confidentiality-DO-NOT-INSTALL

Interesting vulnerability if this is indeed true...

I'm not so much scared of Microsoft holding onto my personal information, rather more worried that they'll lose it and it'll get leaked somehow.

Facebook and Google are far scarier with handling personal information.

These are some privacy fixes. At least you can mange them.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/windows-10-doesnt-offer-much-privacy-by-default-heres-how-to-fix-it/

These are some privacy fixes. At least you can mange them.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/windows-10-doesnt-offer-much-privacy-by-default-heres-how-to-fix-it/

Yeah, it's not too bad if you can mitigate the risks. Again, I'm not particularly worried.

I imagine a good majority of Windows 10 users won't be aware though.

For what it's worth, yesterday I switched to 10 from 8.1 and it's definitely faster. OS is smoother and so are games. I did run all the anti-spying scripts. Took me a long time to at least hide all the stupid crap apps no one is interested in. Unless the NSA shows up at my door, would do again.

.... or are you saying Win10 had already downloaded in the background on its own and was telling you it was ready for install. At which you point you decided to run a further Win7 update after Win10 already downloaded in the background by itself?

No, the upgrade icon appears in the tray but it doesn't download the Win 10 upgrade unless initiated by the user.  What I did was to get a Win 7 system as up to date possible before imaging it to a back up image.  That includes all high priority updates and also any optional updates that I knew I would need (stuff like Visual Basic packages and .Net).  It included zero non-MS stuff except essential drivers i.e. chipset and ethernet drivers from Dell, graphics drivers from nvidia).  This is just basic stuff - get a basic OS up to date and patched but with no apps and then back it up before making an otherwise irreversible change.

Anyhow I've booted Win 7 several times in the last couple of days and it didn't break yet so things are looking up hehehe.

As I mentioned earlier I'll have another look when something like an SP1 appears, or if I see a low quality video on al jazeera featuring Bill in an orange jump suit looking scared, unshaven and promising to fix it.