Because some people have a lot of files and programs they would like to keep?

A smart one would keep those in an external drive or at least on secondary partition not on a windows installed partition that's a rookie move.

Automatically? So if an program comes up and says that your computer is infected and to buy & install a piece of software then it isn't adware? What is it then, a potato?

That falls perfectly within the definition I gave you, it automatically renders fake popup alerts to make you install something for the authors gain. Learn to read please. Also, what does this have to do with Windows 10?

Just because the people who are testing the preview have installed it successfully doesn't necessarily mean that everything will go smoothly at launch for everyone. And even if the initial install goes well, there could be many smaller glitches - like there are now in the current build when its almost RTM.

Alright, two things:
1) As I said, if the install fails your PC will just revert to the old, working Windows.
2) Updates my friend, they're very important for security and bug fixing purposes. Having outdated software is, and has always been very risky, hence why updaters exist. Same goes for Windows, you need frequent updates. There's no way your current OS (whatever version you are running) is 100% bug-free or has no security issues that are eventually bound to be found and abused.

lol, they aren't going to run out. You can install it at any time after its released.

It's Microsoft, you never know what they're going to do next and they're perfectly in the right to stop providing free upgrades whenever they want.

Daedra, quick tip here, think before posting.

A smart one would keep those in an external drive or at least on secondary partition not on a windows installed partition that's a rookie move.

Not everyone has money for an external hard drive. And having a secondary partition for your data is great and all, but don't forgot there's people with multiple OS'es running on the same hard drive. You hit that partition limit on MBR in no time and not everyone loves to fuck around with converting to GPT. As for regular users without multiple OS'es, most don't even know what a partition is, so it's quite ignorant to assume people just have a second partition for their data.

Since i have a legit copy of Windows i'm not worried about any update that destroys pirated versions. However, i am worried about the botched updates that are probably going to become more frequent thanks to Microsoft's new Windows Update policy BS that will be featured in Windows 10.

Basically Microsoft is going to use their customers as genie pigs so server admins will update their servers more often as they will be testing the updates before they are pushed to other versions of Windows 10.

ohh you mean like already fucked up updates for windows 7 that i had just only 2 months ago

lol. I don't get it.

You can claim your free copy and upgrade or do a fresh install.
If you don't want to - fine - your problem.

If you have issues with the popups or with something in W10 then don't use it.
Windows isn't the only OS, MS has their reason for its update policy.

And how did this went into a thread about "whats the best and suitable way to store / install your data / apps".
There are devices out there, who only have one harddrive. Oh dear they are probably all dead by now...

Not everyone has money for an external hard drive. And having a secondary partition for your data is great and all, but don't forgot there's people with multiple OS'es running on the same hard drive. You hit that partition limit on MBR in no time and not everyone loves to fuck around with converting to GPT. As for regular users without multiple OS'es, most don't even know what a partition is, so it's quite ignorant to assume people just have a second partition for their data.

I don't understand how this is making me ignorant lol. I agree with most people don't know how to manage their data. how ever we're not talking about most people here. If you run multiple OS in your system then it explains how upgrading the windows is better option for you. Yet money is not an excuse, Mega is giving out 50gb cloud drive for free.