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Windows 7’s July 2019 Security Patch Includes Telemetry
- sli 7y agoDespite understanding the purpose and value of telemetry for developers, the constant attempts to hide telemetry behind something else (not just by MS) makes me incredibly suspicious. With MS especially it seems to be that -- considering the backlash against Windows 10's telemetry -- if they wanted people to stop raising eyebrows and sounding alarms, they'd be a little more transparent about it instead of continuing to be shady about it for whatever internal reasons they likely have.
- floatingatoll 7y agoIf I were Microsoft, I wouldn’t consider tech news furor around “the word telemetry is present” to be relevant or worth discussing. Either it’s truly security content in which case they’re not going to discuss it, or it’s truly telemetry content in which case they’re not going to discuss it. The OS is discontinued and they probably have an edict forbidding the press team from spending time for the topic “Windows 7” altogether.
- Nullabillity 7y agoThis kind of treatment is what you get when you pay for software.
- jammygit 7y agoA security patch that includes spyware. That’s pretty awkward
- backspace_ 7y agoTelemetry in a security update? Well how else will the windows company know when to call me when there is suspicious activity on my computer?
- theandrewbailey 7y agoWhy is this news? Windows 7 has had telemetry for at least 4 years. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3022345/update-for-customer-experience-and-diagnostic-telemetry https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3022345/update-for-...
- anticensor 7y agoMore telemetry. Specifically, it brings Windows 7 telemetry to Windows 10-Creators' Update level.