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Windows PCs are not used for the same thing as smartphones. Most people don't have all their critical financial or business information on their phones; that's

Windows PCs are not used for the same thing as smartphones. Most people don't have all their critical financial or business information on their phones; that's what PCs are for ("real work"). Most people probably don't care too much if Google knows that you're using Tinder.

recursive 11y ago
Android and Apple Pay suggest other intentions.
raesene9 11y ago
that's an interesting perspective, but I'm not sure it chimes too closely with what I've seen these days. in the UK at least most banks have mobile apps which run on android, people do e-mail (which controls most of their sensitive information) and other items on mobile devices, so their security would be every bit as important as a windows/OSX PC...
scholia 11y ago
Windows 10 runs on everything from USB thumbdrives to 84-inch Surface Hubs, including smartphones, tablets, 2-in-1s, laptops and desktops. If you remove all the corporate machines (with control via Global Policies) then the majority are probably mobile. Some of Windows 10's features come from the convergence with the smartphone platform (Notifications, Cortana). As well as being a mobile OS that runs lots of mobile apps, Windows 10 also has cloud integration (OneDrive, Windows Store etc). This shouldn't be a shock. Nadella has been saying "mobile first, cloud first" since he got the CEO job. > Most people don't have all their critical financial or business information on their phones Why would you imagine Microsoft was incorporating such info in its anonymized telemetry? It's not like telemetry was exactly a new thing. As a matter of fact, Windows Update has been scanning people's hard drives for years (with MRT, the Malware Removal Tool), and collecting crash data since XP.
rodgerd 11y ago
> Most people don't have all their critical financial or business information on their phones Hi, it's 2015 calling, how are things in 2010?

recursive 11y ago

Android and Apple Pay suggest other intentions.

raesene9 11y ago

that's an interesting perspective, but I'm not sure it chimes too closely with what I've seen these days. in the UK at least most banks have mobile apps which run on android, people do e-mail (which controls most of their sensitive information) and other items on mobile devices, so their security would be every bit as important as a windows/OSX PC...

scholia 11y ago

Windows 10 runs on everything from USB thumbdrives to 84-inch Surface Hubs, including smartphones, tablets, 2-in-1s, laptops and desktops. If you remove all the corporate machines (with control via Global Policies) then the majority are probably mobile. Some of Windows 10's features come from the convergence with the smartphone platform (Notifications, Cortana). As well as being a mobile OS that runs lots of mobile apps, Windows 10 also has cloud integration (OneDrive, Windows Store etc). This shouldn't be a shock. Nadella has been saying "mobile first, cloud first" since he got the CEO job. > Most people don't have all their critical financial or business information on their phones Why would you imagine Microsoft was incorporating such info in its anonymized telemetry? It's not like telemetry was exactly a new thing. As a matter of fact, Windows Update has been scanning people's hard drives for years (with MRT, the Malware Removal Tool), and collecting crash data since XP.

rodgerd 11y ago

> Most people don't have all their critical financial or business information on their phones Hi, it's 2015 calling, how are things in 2010?