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The naked truth about this new Windows from user's perspective: http://i.4cdn.org/v/1438148570882.jpg


There's a whole bunch of stuff in that that's inaccurate/outdated, re Wifi Sharing (opt in, even for contacts).

Not to mention a bunch of stuff (Do Not Track) that is set by default that has been explicitly enabled (or disabled, depending on defaults) to look worse. You can argue about whether you should have an "opt-in" for some of these things at all, yes, but this image makes it look like many things are opt-out, when they are in fact opt-in.

Telemetry is the same diagnostics that OS X and even Linux Mint and other distributions do.


> There's a whole bunch of stuff in that that's inaccurate/outdated, re Wifi Sharing (opt in, even for contacts).

So if a random visitor asks for my wifi password, I can prevent it from being sent to Microsoft?


Nevermind my information (that's bad enough), what happens when I'm on a VPN and RDP into my work machine and working with other peoples' sensitive information?

Has anyone captured any traffic from these features to determine what extent they're sending keystrokes?


In my opinion - everybody already gave up their freedoms via Android and iOS, so (someone at) Microsoft feels like there won't be a problem with demanding the same on Windows.

Moves like this always draw ire from us power users, but with enough public outcry, we get what we want. Sometimes we get it through third party software. It's a game that's been played many times with many different companies because unfortunately, greed powers much of the world.


One can have all his freedom with Android, iOS and Windows <10 - it's just gets harder with every new version.

And there hopefully will be an public outcry and/or tools to remove the telemetry logging, cloud lock-in, etc from Win10 too. In the end an OS upgrade should have a benefit, in the worst case Win7 is supported until 2020.




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