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Google has something way more powerful than a desktop OS: Android devices know your every move, everyone you know, all your communication, etc. These devices ar
by Maarten88 11y ago
Google has something way more powerful than a desktop OS: Android devices know your every move, everyone you know, all your communication, etc. These devices are packed full with sensors and know way more about you than a desktop ever can. They send all that home, by default, for a big chunk of the world's population, yet this is perceived very differently than what Microsoft does.
- tdkl 11y agoThe topic is about the desktop PC. Yes all this is somehow true, yet they offer an opt-out in Settings that doesn't change with updates behind your back. I'm sure you'll understand by now what I'm pointing at with recent MS practices.
- Maarten88 11y agoThe topic is Windows. Windows is not only a desktop OS anymore. The exact same code (since a few weeks even the same build numbers) is running Windows Phone and Windows tablets too. This is what is causing the issues that the OP is about: new hardware (both x86 and ARM) comes with new features in power management and virtualization (i.e. connected standby) which Windows needs to abstract and they find it too hard/risky to backport the OS and driver changes to every device now running Windows 7.
- vetinari 11y agoThey don't send that out by default. They ask about it in the welcome wizard. Once the preference is set, it is not changed behind your backs by updates.
- cronjobber 11y agoFor a few years, Microsoft seemed to have really cleaned up their act and showed promise to become an ethical OS vendor that you could trust. The loss of that Microsoft is the tragedy here, the loss of the last commercial mainstream computing platform that didn't want to do everything it possibly can to snitch, spy, analyze, advertize or gamify the living hell out of its... "customers."