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I'm using WinX right now on my laptop as well . Didn't like win8 either and X is working OK.
Problem is at work where we have a 12 station network that uses proprietary digital xray software and patient management software that were designed for Win 7 Pro. One of our workstations installed winX despite my efforts (I think one of my employees clicked OK without checking carefully). Well, that workstation could no longer launch the programs and was out of service for 4 hours while I reverted back to Win7 Pro. I was not pleased at all. Even though the update gives you 30 days to go back to your old system the programs have to be reinstalled, not to mention that all her user preferences went back to default. I would like to send MS a bill for my inconvenience.
The Pro editions allow you to prevent automatically upgrading the OS through Group Policy Editor, but obviously it didn't help when someone clicked where they should not have. But I blame MS for not taking 'no thanks' as an answer. It feels as if I'm being hacked by a MS upgrade trojan!!
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