Tony - there is so much misinformation, and comments that don't make sense in your posts, I really don't know where to begin.
"If you say that someone or something is not a patch on another person or thing, you mean that they are not as good as that person or thing."
I have no clue what that means. I just know I said nothing of the sort! And it would appear there is some lack of understanding for what a
software patch is.
Me being American has nothing to do with anything here. Nor does the fact you are British, or at least live in the U.K. And for the record, I used to live and work in the U.K. too and still have many British friends and colleagues over there as well has many who have moved here. Not to mention there are many who regularly visit this site who live in the U.K. and other foreign lands. I also used to live in and used computers in Portugal and Germany too. They really are the same just about everywhere.
I was reluctant to move to windows 10 because of the reputation it has amongst many users in the UK, however having now moved over to Windoews 10 (not upgraded in my opinon) I can hardley be expected to be familar with its rather strange and quite different ways in comparison to Windows 7.
Sorry, but this is nonsense. W10's reputation is pretty much the same all over (won't speak for China due to the massive amounts of counterfeiting and government interference). The bad part is much of that reputation is based on falsehoods and biases.
The truth is, Windows 10 is, by far, the best, most secure Windows version yet (I can't speak for W11 yet). Was there a learning curve? Yes. Was it hard? Nope. Frankly, I found the learning curve going from XP to Windows 7 much steeper (I skipped Vista).
As far as you not being familiar with W10, why should you be any different than any of the other 100s of millions of W7 users who moved to W10? It was the same learning curve we all had to negotiate.
The difference is, many, if not most of us migrated to W10 5 or 6 years ago. This means you have had the advantage being able to read the 1000s and 1000s of articles and posts to become very familiar with W10 - a distinct advantage we never had. You also had the advantage to weed out all the nonsense but I fear you didn't take the time to do that.
in my experience I can only speak as I find when comparing the two browsers Firefox is faster and more user friendly than Bing
Ummm, Bing is not a browser. It is a search engine. You can use Bing with Firefox, just like you can use Google or DuckDuckGo with Firefox.
Firefox is developed by Mozilla. It is totally separate from Microsoft, Edge or Windows.
If you did the research on ransomware, you would learn those companies were NOT infected due to a failure in Microsoft's security. By far, most were infected because those in charge of security
failed to apply
available patches in a timely manner. Another method commonly used was socially engineered emails that tricked users into clicking links, that then deployed malware that infected "unpatched" systems. And for that manner, many of those involved older versions of Windows - to include W7.
I understand that some computor techies are just desperate to appear superior in some way
I hope I have not come off that way - if so, my apologies. But seriously, Microsoft's official "mainstream" support for Windows 7 ended January 13, 2015 and extended support ended January 14, 2020. W7 has been superseded multiple times (if you count the major W10 upgrades too).
And now, more than 6 years after W10 came out, you come here with, as britechguy aptly called it, an "old, really old" "schtick". And as noted, much of what you claimed here is totally inaccurate.
