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The enterprise edition allows you to disable more telemetry than the other versions, but it still sends some data back. There is currently no Microsoft-endorse
by actsasbuffoon 10y ago
The enterprise edition allows you to disable more telemetry than the other versions, but it still sends some data back.
There is currently no Microsoft-endorsed way to disable all telemetry, no matter how much money you pay, or which version of the software you buy.
I'm excited by France's decision. I hope the telemetry-free version of Windows 10 will be available outside of France, because I'd happily pay a bunch of money for it.
As it stands, I'm stuck on Windows 7 because I don't like the UI in Windows 8, and I'm not a fan of the telemetry in Windows 10. I've only run into a handful of apps that don't work because my OS isn't compatible with very new versions of DirectX/.NET, but these problems will only become more common with time.
- tonmoy 10y agoYou do realize you are missing out on huge performance boost by not upgrading to 8 just because you don't like the UI, right?
- actsasbuffoon 10y agoYes, I do. I have a hard enough time with the UI that I'm willing to accept a performance penalty. I'm colorblind, and the flat design makes it very hard for me to figure out what's clickable. Things like borders, shadow, and shading provide valuable visual hints about which parts of the UI can be interacted with. I've heard that Windows 10 has walked back some of the more problematic design changes.
- whyoh 10y agoOh, come on! There is no huge performance boost. In fact, based on most properly done benchmarks, there isn't any performance boost at all! The whole "myth" of a performance boost probably started simply because they added a new startup mode in W8, called "Fast Startup", which is basically just partial hibernation. So even saying that it boots faster isn't correct; regular boot, sleep and hibernation are still just as fast as they were on W7.