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Well, your AChatGPT connection might be private but your Windows machine will leak like a sieve. It is embarrassing how needy the blasted things are about sign

Well, your AChatGPT connection might be private but your Windows machine will leak like a sieve. It is embarrassing how needy the blasted things are about signing in via Azure/Microsoft, instead of a local or AD account. Even worse is the naff "choose how insidious you would like us to be" series of questions. How would you like your ads? Targeted or non targeted? How about not at all? Nope. In this day and age, exactly how private does anyone expect their comms/thoughts/files/data to be? I recall reading a recent MS EULA and it seems I have to say three Hail Marys every third Tuesday for using Arch Linux on my PCs. I could install Edge, and did but I don't like the nasty homepage - a bit right wing ... - why on earth is a browser pushing "news"? Its a browser. To be fair I had to dump all the homepage crap that Firefox pushed when I finally dumped anything to do with Chrome. Please don't use the words private and secure when you have your fingers crossed behind your back.

xist 3y ago
The article is referring to enterprise usage - and you're quoting all the consumer level attributes (aka cheap/sometimes subsidized version). At the enterprise level where this is intended to be ran, things are much diffrerent. If you're not aware of the differences or use cases, perhaps you're not the target audience who should be using or configuring it.
- gerdesj 3y ago
  Why don't we give the willy waving a miss? Win 10 and 11 are steering you to cloud first, out of the box. That's fine if you like it, but I don't and quite a lot of my customers don't. The real problem is about data sovereignty. I'm a Brit and ... MS isn't.
  - xist 3y ago
    The article is about use in an enterprise. An enterprise runs professional/enterprise/ltsc versions which do NOT steer you to the cloud - what data sovereignty concerns have you seen in those editions of windows/server? They've gone through a lot of pains to ensure those concerns are taken care of for enterprises/governments so i'm curious the ones you think they missed. You can make the argument for their consumer editions sure, but that's a different product with different features, different price point for different users.

xist 3y ago

The article is referring to enterprise usage - and you're quoting all the consumer level attributes (aka cheap/sometimes subsidized version). At the enterprise level where this is intended to be ran, things are much diffrerent. If you're not aware of the differences or use cases, perhaps you're not the target audience who should be using or configuring it.

gerdesj 3y ago
Why don't we give the willy waving a miss? Win 10 and 11 are steering you to cloud first, out of the box. That's fine if you like it, but I don't and quite a lot of my customers don't. The real problem is about data sovereignty. I'm a Brit and ... MS isn't.
- xist 3y ago
  The article is about use in an enterprise. An enterprise runs professional/enterprise/ltsc versions which do NOT steer you to the cloud - what data sovereignty concerns have you seen in those editions of windows/server? They've gone through a lot of pains to ensure those concerns are taken care of for enterprises/governments so i'm curious the ones you think they missed. You can make the argument for their consumer editions sure, but that's a different product with different features, different price point for different users.