Before I got a replacement tab/session manager, I'd had pretty reliable luck using History>Restore previous session.

Well, happens to me from time to time that the session is somehow broken. I had to navigate to ~/.mozilla/firefox/<your-profile>/sessionstore-backups and moving either recovery or previous one level up and renaming it. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but it occurs to me that FF57 now uses a different mechanism as I can't seem to locate the session file anymore.

It's a generational thing. You start reading a document and that links to 3 other documents. You may be interested in them so you open them up in a tab to peek at them. They're interesting, but they aren't important to read now. You leave them open to read later. Now repeat that process over the course of several months. The number of interesting links you encounter exceeds your reading capacity. It's a losing battle, but one you must fight.

I can't think of any reason why you couldn't just add Outlook to your startup programs (the normal method of getting a program to launch automatically upon logon). This Q/A page even has users claiming this still works in Windows 10:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start-winpc/outlook-startup-in-win-10/e36b8483-c759-40a6-a9ca-cf88391c6bda?auth=1

Windows historically gets a lot of unwarranted hatred (at least as much as the WARRANRTED one )...but Win10 it's M$ best OS by far

I've used several different machines and going back to 7 feels awful (while even 7 didn't shake completely the "good'ol XP days" reminiscence)....and I LOVED Win7.

Also:
- doesn't restart my PC(s) every night....didn't almost EVER restart the machines without interaction...those times I woke up in the morning with a warning.."hey I needed to restart due to MAJOR REASONS"...almost like my iPhone(s)

- hasn't uninstalled any of the programs I installed on purpose

- didn't reactivate defender EVER, no to mention windows firewall

- Whenever Win10 Pro has domain policies, it's quite manageable (word of many IT managers I heard, I am so lucky I don't have an IT manager).

I'm feeling Chris just got hit by bad luck with his VM...I ran a couple Win10 VMs on Linux testbeds (old Zotac mini-PCs scavenged from some digital signage totems) and they allowed me a couple months of operation with no major problems...

GRANTED, I'm this close to definitely switch to Ubuntu Mate or Zorin 12 on my work laptop...both on the same Hardware just leave Win10 ages behind in performance...but saying Win10 is that bad feels plain wrong to me.

Chris, what feels 1988 to me is that you rely on desktop notification for emails...wouldn't it be for the keyboard, professionally speaking email is basically 99% mobile....I'm that kind of weird guy that gets warned of incoming mail by his phone, but uses mostly the PC to reply to incoming mail

I get like 50 emails a day from mailing lists and things of that nature. There's no way I'd want to be notified unless I filtered them first.

I'm not saying that it happens to everyone. But it absolutely happens to me and I support Windows installations for clients for a living. I'm no idiot when it comes to diagnosing resource bottlenecks.

Like how Windows telemetry, compatibility, and defender, and search indexer take 100% of my laptop's 5800 RPM hard drive so it literally takes ~5 minutes to boot to desktop. On a "10 windows ready" work laptop.

Or how Windows Photo takes way longer to load photos than their old photo viewer program. (It's still on your computer, go ahead and test.)

Or how their DPI scaling support is still atrocious even for many Microsoft programs. Fonts corrupt. Dialogs shrink vital areas and don't let you resize them. I dare you to try setting DPI to 150% (which was default on my install for some insane reason) and load up various dialogs. Last time I checked even SQL Manager 2014/2016 became completely unusable. And that's a Microsoft product.

I'm actually building a list of positives and negatives. I'm no windows basher. I'll use whatever is great. But Linux is waaay greater in my experience. My tiny (chromebook) netbook with 2 GB of RAM and a Celeron processor is super snappy running the supposedly "bloated" Ubuntu Unity and actually loads the search bar with apps list faster than my 8 core AMD FX-8370. There's even verified tests where a Chrome developer is tracking down why his 24-core Windows machine freezes the mouse with 90% idle CPU usage (spoiler: Tons of single-threaded mutex locks in the Windows API) when he compiles Chrome.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/

The biggest negative of all is simply that it treats you like an idiot and won't even trust you to override it. Shut of Windows Defender (if you have no other anti-virus) and it WILL turn itself back on within hours.

As for POSITIVES?
- Switching between duplicate and extend/one-screen mode using Win+P is WAY WAY FASTER. Explorer in win7 would be frozen for almost a minute while it recached or did whatever it needed to, to "Adapt", and the actual physical screen change is much faster.

- Drag windows to the CORNER of the screen to snap to a QUARTER of your screen. I've long had to use

- Windows 8/10 supports DirectX12 and supports a much faster full-screen capture so if you use OBS/whatever it's much more efficient when doing full-display capture. However, this feature actually WORKS in Windows 7 and someone hacked it in to prove it, but Microsoft simply wants Windows 7 users to leave so they intentionally disabled it and called it an upgrade feature.

- Windows Task Manager FINALLY adds nice GPU monitoring in the fall update so you don't have to use a third-party app for that.

I'm sure I'll notice more positives eventually. But why the HELL do they rename "my computer" -> "computer" -> "this PC" EVERY DAMN VERSION. How is that helping anything? Did some middle-manager get a bonus by suggesting "omg, we gotta rename it. It'll be improved because of synergy."

I'm still pissed they removed Windows Gadgets in Windows 8/10. I love those things. Android has Widgets. Why would they REMOVE a FEATURE like that? So I install 8gadgettool (or whatever) to bring them back. Except, like I mentioned, every Spring/Fall/whatever Creators Update actually UNINSTALLS MY SOFTWARE.

I personally love feeling like a guest on my own computer. I better not bother the real owner of the house, lest I get kicked out.

I'm specifically talking about work e-mails (not general e-mails to my personal accounts) and those come in from my boss, notifying me of new work to do. Sometimes time critical work like a server or product went down and needs fixed ASAP. Due to health problems, I can much more easily "Wake up" if I know there's something critical going on when those e-mails start piling in.

The setting subsystem is just an extra layer added for who-da-f*ck-knows why, it's awful!

Start tiled menu on the contrary is quite likeable (finally?) and I'm using it a LOT.

Several of my customers did a short trial migration to Win10 but each of them deployed almost immediately after exactly cause they can manage new deployments with a good proven set of ".reg" strings they "ported" from Win7 (I actually think that they've been porting those since Win 0 but I digress ).

I'm no windows basher nor fanboy, I also think that nowadays Linux is way snappier....but all in all Win10 is a good product and is spot-on for Microsoft.

Not to mention the ridiculous number of ways Win 10 sends data home to MS?

Doesn't Goggle/apple/amazon do the same with their products? Just wondering.

I may hate it as much as the guy next door, but all in all most of these inconsistencies are quite light and do not bother 99,99% of the users...Chris said that MS treats its power users awfully....that's a given, the HATE power users and windows is no power-user OS, I think we have unix-like variants for that...we all know that.

And...it's true that Win10 restarted my PC if it has updates (windows had always to do that since ...well A LONG TIME...and I also hate it), but not that abruptly as all your comments lead me to think...this seriously bugs me, is my system updated?

Windows gotta be windows, and Win10 is a good windows...I didn't expect it to be close to that when I had the unlucky chance to stumble upon win8..brrr...

On a podcast network I listen to, it seems that Windows 10 updated and rebooted during the hours you can configure it to NOT auto reboot. If that was a bug, it may have been fixed already. Oh, and CPU-Z was a program they uninstalled from people machines.

On the mobile front (no clue about Macs), it seems they only really remove programs if they found it doing bad things. Most likely, when they remove a program from the phone/tablet remotely, chances are, the version you were using may have been in fact malware in disguise that passed the checks they do somehow.

Windows 8.2 ahem 10 is pretty bad with updates. Usually what it does is it will prompt the user that it plans to install updates during off hours (implicitly) and if you want you can choose instead to update now or schedule a different time. In other words, if you aren't there to stop it, it'll update and reboot on its own...

That's not the worst of it. Apparently a major update going around in October actually bricked several machines. I didn't know about this until my finacee's laptop stopped booting. It's often hibernating since she doesn't really use it unless she needs new music or needs to print something out.. Finally she turned it back on and was horrified to discover that it didn't start back up. She asked me to look at it, and I figured it was something innocent, until I realized that it wasn't so simple.

Of course, we don't have proper installation media for the machine because it's an OEM Windows 8 license that we upgraded to 10 online. The error message read "inaccessible boot device" so I assumed a disk cable had come undone or something. And I'm not comfortable enough with computer hardware to attempt to disassemble a laptop on my own. I was prepared to send it to a repair shop, but fortunately I work with a guy that was willing to look at it for me. He's the one that traced it back to Windows update. Apparently Microsoft fixed the update shortly after it rolled out and bricked several machines, but by then the damage was already done. My guy tried to repair the machine, but I think that failed. I didn't fire it up to look, but it sounded like he had to reinstall the system from a downloaded installation media. "Fortunately", because the hardware hadn't changed, Microsoft allowed it to be upgraded to Windows 10 again (Windows 10 is far from perfect, but it's still a lot better than Windows 8).

Worst comes to worst I do have a Windows 7 license sitting on a shelf that I could have used, but I bet my finacee would have been annoyed about "downgrading". She was open to me installing Linux for her instead, except that she needs Windows to access her iPhone.. I was this close.