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Windows 10 isn't very popular, and that is good. No other operating system is as hostile to the users privacy, and certainly no desktop operating system where e
by frik 10y ago
Windows 10 isn't very popular, and that is good. No other operating system is as hostile to the users privacy, and certainly no desktop operating system where everyone stores many private files. And not just personal files, but think of all the doctors offices, lawyers - which makes Win10 illegal to use in many countries, as it transfers automatically your key strokes, microphone samples, screenshots, search history, application list, hardware configuration and what not else that god forbids to dozens of domains that have not even Microsoft in it's name. And the domains and IPs ate whitelisted in the signed 64-bit kernel mode part of Win10 network layer. Good night, no work around possible. Except you carry a hardware firewall around attached to your laptop. So it's good that the "free" (free to exchange for a Win7/8 license dongled to one mainboard) Win10 failed all expectations and got little uptake. Most companies are still on Win7 and all literated users too beside some foolished fanboys/early adopters/noobs. Many reverted back to Win7 after the got Win10 tricked "by accident". XBoxOne failed spectacular too being far far behind PS4 and even WiiU sales. And WinMobile/Phone 10 is dead too, with as little as 0.6% global market share. If I would be an investor, I would fire this failed CEO and some of his top managers incl PR department and restore and rebrand some of their former good products.
- hiram112 10y agoYep. I realized today that in my office of about 30 employees, there are about 2 windows machines, 2 devs running Linux, and the rest running MacBooks. All of our servers are CentOS on AWS. Email is Gmail enterprise. We use a dozen different languages and frameworks, but no dot Net, no Visual Studio to be seen. And most of us now collaborate with Google docs or just markdown / Confluence / Slack. The only ones using MS office are a few of the managers over the age of 50...
- emp_zealoth 10y agoI hope you do realise that most of that anti-privacy bullshit was backported to win7 too?
- Zpalmtree 10y agoYes, but fortunately it's rather easy to avoid the backports, wheras I believe it's impossible to completely disable it in Windows 10
- MikusR 10y agoYou can block what you want using the built in firewall http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-just-windows-firewall/ http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-...
- yoz-y 10y agoThat is a lot of Ad Hominem attacks in one comment. For a personal computer one might care. For a work computer? Nobody gives a crap unless handling private information of other people. No personal stuff touches my work W10 installation. Worst case scenario: corporate espionage. I am not that paranoid.