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Microsoft admits that its Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far
- mtgx 10y agoGreat. Now all that's left is to admit that the "let's track everything users do on their Windows computers" campaign went too far as well. Hopefully not after Windows 10 is already on 1.5 billion PCs and they've already fully exploited all of that data, like their doing now with the "apology" for the upgrade campaign, half a year after it's no longer in effect anyway.
- orionblastar 10y agoSort of like stealing a bicycle and then ask for forgiveness when caught.
- herbst 10y agoThe problem is nobody seems to care. Usually when i bring this up some smartass will show up and tell me you can disable it. Seems nobody that actually uses this shit piece of software ever reads the terms, its very detailed in the fact that disabling disables only a few things.
- Tempest1981 10y agoThe forced reboot for Windows Updates in Win10 is also very aggressive. I believe you get a choice of [Now] or [Later], where Later does a surprise reboot in N minutes -- without even letting you save your open documents.
- tsomctl 10y agoOr, if you leave it on overnight, you'll get a reboot with no notice at all. I strongly recommend that you disable the Windows Update service, with the caveat that you enable it once a month or so when you can reboot.
- yuhong 10y agoI remember the @MalwareMinigun @BrandonLive tweets.
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- BipolarElsa 10y agoWindows 10 Enterprise LTSB (N) or bust. I don't horse around with my operating systems, and I won't accept M$FT's substandard offerings.
- tunap 10y agoWhy apologize now? The damage is done, their big net has upgraded millions of unintended users. I can only speculate at what their next deliberate and calculated move will be. My money(figuratively) is on subscription fees are coming. How will they deprecate the non-payers, more ads? They wouldn't black screen millions, would they?