Microsoft’s Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare

MNtundraRet wrote:

Colo Native wrote:
I downloaded it and within 24 hours got rid of it.

Maybe you can answer a question for me. Did you have Windows 7 before the download? If so did you loose your Microsoft Word and Excel?

I have the free-be versions with ads, and can't see getting stuck paying a fee each year to handle using net-worth spreadsheets and Word documents needed by a retired person.

I can deal with the bugs in Windows 7, and will stick with it until "Drop-dead" date instead of paying more to Microsoft for programs supplied with the computers in the past.

I am using Office 97. Word, Excel etc all work as they should.
It also fixed a scan problem that MS cause a year ago with one of
their network updates with my Laser printer scanner.

I am very pleaded. W7 to W10 works great.

Campfire Time wrote:
If you are worried about your privacy, you lost that the minute you started using a credit card. And those store loyalty cards you use? Yeah, they know a lot about you...

the 'new privacy' is real. but my purchasing activity is way less personal than whom and what my emails address, or what data my crashed excel spreadsheet might have given MS's 'trusted partners' as they both 'restore' the app.

there is benign and malevolently intrusive - ask all the federal employees whose personal data was stolen about the difference.

If you are worried about your privacy, you lost that the minute you started using a credit card. And those store loyalty cards you use? Yeah, they know a lot about you...

MNtundraRet wrote:
... Maybe you can answer a question for me. Did you have Windows 7 before the download? If so did you loose your Microsoft Word and Excel?

I have the free-be versions with ads, and can't see getting stuck paying a fee each year to handle using net-worth spreadsheets and Word documents needed by a retired person.

I can deal with the bugs in Windows 7, and will stick with it until "Drop-dead" date instead of paying more to Microsoft for programs supplied with the computers in the past.

All data and programs remain intact. There's only a few MS things you lose such as Windows Media Center and some games like Spider Solitaire.

I did the upgrade on a Win 7 netbook with Office 2003 on it and all my Office programs still work fine.

Yeah, it's good - I like it.

'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

Colo Native wrote:
I downloaded it and within 24 hours got rid of it.

Maybe you can answer a question for me. Did you have Windows 7 before the download? If so did you loose your Microsoft Word and Excel?

I have the free-be versions with ads, and can't see getting stuck paying a fee each year to handle using net-worth spreadsheets and Word documents needed by a retired person.

I can deal with the bugs in Windows 7, and will stick with it until "Drop-dead" date instead of paying more to Microsoft for programs supplied with the computers in the past.

I downloaded it and within 24 hours got rid of it.

Read the other Windows 10 comments here and ypu will see how to cut all of them off. I is not difficult.