Microsoft’s Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare

2012Coleman wrote:
I'm not a MS basher by any means, but does the fact that I don't want targeted advertising on my PC, or my bandwidth being used as a peer to peer network to download updates, applications I install accessing my personal info, or don't want to create a universal logon mean that I'm misguided?

Like many things, they can be a two edged sword.

Microsoft is moving into the world that Apple, Facebook and Google have been in for quite a while and who were eating Microsoft's lunch. That is, a single login for all things in each company's domain and collecting more information about you. This additional information is very helpful to the user in many apps on smart phones and tablets (and increasingly on PCs), but it can also be used in a way not beneficial to the user. So it's a dilemma.

I don't like advertising particularly, but in many domains it is now avoidable (think DVRs, website ad blocking, watching a movie on Netflix vs on a TV broadcast channel, etc.). But it is the basis of the American way unfortunately. I find billboards every few hundred yards of a highway blocking out beautiful views much more annoying. And Facebook is the world leader, probably, in this world of knowledge about their users and look at how many users they have. Microsoft is so far a piker in comparison.

So each has to choose their own course depending on how they view the pros and cons.