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Does this mean that microsoft could be keeping copies of the meta data of every file on every windows computer on their servers and doing the search there?
by basicplus2 7y ago
Does this mean that microsoft could be keeping copies of the meta data of every file on every windows computer on their servers and doing the search there?
- craftinator 7y agoI had the same thought. Bit of a security risk there, not to mention being incredibly invasive.
- xkemp 7y agoWell, yes, they obviously can as in could, as could any other OS. This incident doesn't actually show any local files being sent to MS, however. Online search can be disable with a registry entry, which proves that the online service is not necessary for searching local files. It's far more likely that a connection error for the bing search is just triggering some bug that then prevents local results from being shown.
- NikkiA 7y agoWhy not? that's how google desktop search used to work.