Downgrading Windows for the first time in my life
I've not been burned by Microsoft in recent memory until two weeks ago. I think the Windows XP install I did over a decade ago was a little frustrating in that I had to retry it several times before the install actually completed, but apart from that I actually liked XP over 98. I liked Vista over XP (yes, really, and I think you folk who bad-mouthed Vista are delusional). I liked Windows 7 which was more like a Vista service pack, but you all were too full of irrational rage at Vista to see that Windows 7 was Vista with a different skin and a little faster. I liked Windows 8 over Windows 7 a lot. It was exciting to see how easily my kids who had never used a computer before could navigate Windows 8 with such ease. Windows 8.1 wasn't bad either but it was a little amusing to see Microsoft tell you start menu complainers to go pound sand with their "start menu" addition to Windows 8.1.
Finally I upgraded Windows 8.1 on our family computer to Windows 10 two weeks ago. This was a bad decision. Not only do I think the UI backslid a little (thank goodness for tablet mode though), but they are missing critical features for managing accounts, especially child accounts.
To manage a child's account, prevent them from accessing some apps and websites, I must first create an email account. An email account for a 3 year old is a bad idea, I don't care what your reason is for it.
I cannot enable my child accounts to log in without entering a password, a pin, or some other authentication method. I used to be able to leave the account as a local account without a password. While I could teach my kids to use a password, a pin or whatever, this is annoying and frankly unnecessary from my perspective.
I cannot enable "Whitelist only" on internet filtering. Instead they give me the option to black list and white list specific sites. Tell me how I'm supposed to itemize a black list for a global network that is probably 90% porn? This is a deal breaker right here.
I cannot whitelist apps either. Instead I have to wait for an app to be used before I can block it. Whoever wrote this feature I'm guessing doesn't have kids, or their kids are in constant danger of setting the house on fire -- but only once, after that the matches get put where the kids can't reach them.
I might be able to dig up some other annoyances if I took the time, but the above mentioned ones make the transition from 8.1 not just painful, but impossible for my family.
I'm downgrading Windows 10 back to Windows 8.1.
Thankfully this is not hard. If you type in Recovery into the start menu, you can click on Recovery Options. You have a month from the Windows 10 upgrade to select Go Back to Windows 8.1.