Microsoft’s Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare

3oaks wrote:

burlmart wrote:
'hope springs eternal.'

i've been all glowing about how MS was gonna redeem itself after reaming them on how they used all sorts of scare tactics and half truths to force us off XP.

I see i was in a hopeful fog of naivete. its all M$, and that's that.

abusing our trust in a major US corporation and nonchalantly recommending people to do the 'express install,' which unbeknownst to 90% of them allows MS unprecedented access to their privacy is dirty business, and completely nullifies any trust that users have placed in this greedy corporation.

i don't know what i was thinking that they were good guys

But are they doing anything illegal? If not, oh well, it's all about choices. You choose!

they likely have great lawyers - the kind that can write a contract tat even they, themselves, find hard to understand. and you are right that we are free to walk. i am sensing that there is a privace cost to running this free OS which

1} most non IT savvy people are going to feel unhappy about once they find it out, and

2) will change the tunes of the hi tech writers who are now glossing over the privacy sea-change posed by w10. they may be glowing about their W10 beta experience w/ MS now, but lets see what thty're saying a yr from now