Microsoft is giving Windows 10 a big upgrade.

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25. "Microsoft says Windows 10 is the company's most successful version of Windows"

Microsoft says Windows 10 is the company's most successful version of Windows and it now runs on more than 350 million devices.

That's only because:

1. All new computers sold at brick-and-mortar stores after 7/30/15 could have only Windows 10; and,
2. Microsoft has been tricking naive users into upgrading their computers to Windows 10 automatically.

If you have to use Windows 10, there are two things to do:

1. Go into Privacy settings and turn everything off (otherwise, everything you do in the computer is sent to Microsoft) and,

2. Install Anti-Beacon (https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/) to disable some additional spyware Microsoft has built into Windows 10

Even after doing this, though, Windows 10 isn't suitable for use in any environment subject to HIPAA because of its lax security. For example, even after turning everything off in Privacy as described above, Microsoft will silently turn some of them back on. Anti-Beacon blocks only some, not all, of these nefarious actions.

All new machines we install are still procured with Windows 7, which is still available in the OEM channel (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.) In the serious business environment, Windows 10 is very poorly received. That's why the OEM channel will continue to sell and support it. We're preparing all of our clients for a post-Microsoft world. Microsoft currently says the end of life for Windows 7 is 1/14/20. It's possible that Microsoft will provide a version of Windows 10 without all of their spyware between now and then. It wouldn't be the first time they discovered that the tail can't wag the dog.