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How do you think Apple gets their spell-check data, or improves Siri's voice recognition? In any event, during the installation process, you do see a screen wh

How do you think Apple gets their spell-check data, or improves Siri's voice recognition? In any event, during the installation process, you do see a screen where you can turn all this off. It's not off by default, but viewing these settings was part of my Windows 10 installation experience.

ewzimm 11y ago
I thought the options to turn off defaults were pretty clear during the installation process. Requests to make options more explicit and visual are reasonable, but it bothers me that Mozilla and others are acting like "choose my default programs" or "custom settings" are too obscure for anyone to understand. You also have the option to delete your history.
ionised 11y ago
Turning those things off still doesn't prevent Windows 10 from sending tracking and usage data to Microsoft though, even when you're only using a Local Account instead of a Microsoft Account.
xigency 11y ago
I don't know, how about using a dictionary and doing research? Otherwise wouldn't every commonly misspelled word show up incorrectly in spellcheck? There is quite a bit of work in the field of speech recognition, too, and it's entirely possible to create a functional model without recording every user's voice and storing that information on a server. Even if they require speech samples, or samples from different languages, they should at least pay someone for that information. I was disappointed when I learned that the voice recognition feature in Siri wasn't local to the phone.
amyjess 11y ago
I can confirm: I bought a Surface Pro 3 the other day, and when I first booted it up, the setup screens explicitly asked me which privacy settings I'd like to enable.
- icewater0 11y ago
  Do you know if there is any information sent to Microsoft by default for which they did not offer you a screen widget to click that says "off"? Do you know what actual data is, and is not, sent to Microsoft as you use your device? Even if you do, will you still know once Microsoft pushes a mandatory update and/or changes its 12,000 word terms of service?
vetinari 11y ago
> In any event, during the installation process, you do see a screen where you can turn all this off. It's not off by default, but viewing these settings was part of my Windows 10 installation experience. The problem is that Windows 10 does not respect you having this turned off. It will send away your data, even if you turned off all the switches. Don't you see this as a huge problem?

ewzimm 11y ago

I thought the options to turn off defaults were pretty clear during the installation process. Requests to make options more explicit and visual are reasonable, but it bothers me that Mozilla and others are acting like "choose my default programs" or "custom settings" are too obscure for anyone to understand. You also have the option to delete your history.

ionised 11y ago

Turning those things off still doesn't prevent Windows 10 from sending tracking and usage data to Microsoft though, even when you're only using a Local Account instead of a Microsoft Account.

xigency 11y ago

I don't know, how about using a dictionary and doing research? Otherwise wouldn't every commonly misspelled word show up incorrectly in spellcheck? There is quite a bit of work in the field of speech recognition, too, and it's entirely possible to create a functional model without recording every user's voice and storing that information on a server. Even if they require speech samples, or samples from different languages, they should at least pay someone for that information. I was disappointed when I learned that the voice recognition feature in Siri wasn't local to the phone.

amyjess 11y ago

I can confirm: I bought a Surface Pro 3 the other day, and when I first booted it up, the setup screens explicitly asked me which privacy settings I'd like to enable.

icewater0 11y ago
Do you know if there is any information sent to Microsoft by default for which they did not offer you a screen widget to click that says "off"? Do you know what actual data is, and is not, sent to Microsoft as you use your device? Even if you do, will you still know once Microsoft pushes a mandatory update and/or changes its 12,000 word terms of service?

vetinari 11y ago

> In any event, during the installation process, you do see a screen where you can turn all this off. It's not off by default, but viewing these settings was part of my Windows 10 installation experience. The problem is that Windows 10 does not respect you having this turned off. It will send away your data, even if you turned off all the switches. Don't you see this as a huge problem?