Microsoft Responds to Windows 10 Privacy Concerns - Comments Page 1

Good clarification - if accurate.

It was revealed a while back that whenever you clicked on "send" in the crash report dialog box, it went not only to Microsoft, but directly to the N.S.A. as well. How nice that they no longer give you a choice! I was about to use my free upgrade to Win 10. Now I'm thinkin'"yeah, maybe not"!

EDITOR'S NOTE: No, your crash reports are not sent to the NSA. See http://www.geekwire.com/2013/microsoft-windows-crash-reporting-system-nsa-passive-spying-report/

Hi Bob; Thanks for being our eyes and ears. It is comforting to know you are part of an invaluable force that digs deep into the quarry to get at the facts.
Very much appreciated.
Ole

I don't believe half of what Microsoft says.i HATE the gui in win 10.if u ask me win 7 is best os they've made.

One word. Ubuntu

I used win 10 for a couple of weeks. I did not like it, and reverted to win 7.

Thanks Bob for another needed and very informative
article. I printed mine out for future reference.

When users connect to their Microsoft user account page, Outlook.com, or OneDrive.com even when using HTTPS, the connection leaks a unique identifier that can be used to retrieve their name and profile photo in plaintext.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/microsoft-sites-expose-visitors-profile-info-in-plain-text/

Well I will be taking 10 off all my computers very soon. It is junk and the worst OS they could find or come up with. Windows seven is the best, not counting XP which was the very best. I Will sell out all my stuff and buy a typewriter to send snail mail, cheaper and more trust worthy. Thank you for all your advise and help over the years.

Ohhh lordy, I am so tired of all this and of Microsoft and the entire idea now of having a computer system at all. I do not believe Microsoft at all or the Government for that matter. They lie out of the one side of their mouth while cheating you and your privacy with fake words on the other side. It is all very depressing. However, I do use O&O ShutUp 10 and I hope it helps some. There is no reason why they should find it necessary to spy on anyone but they do it anyway and then lie to you about it.

Computers use to be fun and I use to have fun, I guess those days are truly gone now, and no matter what you do, they know it...pathetic it all is...

Is there a OS that runs well and is independent from Microsoft?
My old Windows7 booted up much faster than Win10. I've been thinking of wiping everything out and downloading Win7 off my discs that I made.

Two more words 'Classic Shell'

Yes CT, I may be going the Ubuntu route as well. Microsoft gives business users the option of choosing which updates to install and when. Why should home users have to be unwitting beta testers for Windows updates?

Why can't Microsoft (and others) just mind their own business and stop trying to profile everyone? If I want to find out baseball scores or what have you, I don't need MSoft serving it up to me. I find all that monitoring crap extremely intrusive and annoying.

I totally agree with Chuck. I have been very happy with Win7. I like Linux as CT says but it's not really Windows, so I think I'll DL Win10 to my 8.1 lappy (because I hate 8.1 with a passion), stick my toe in that water, and see what it's like before I do my i7 main box from Win7. Test drive.

Mr. Rankin, keep the invaluable info flow coming, it is appreciated Sir!

Do not trust them; do not like all the changes!

Windows 10 is not the first of Microsofts OS that use spyware. It started with about when Bill and his henchmen created the first GUI OS . So get used to it if you are a Microsoft user.

Hi Bob
Do you have any inside track when Windows 10 upgrades during install process will NOT fail at 32% - this happens in some instances - hopefully Microsoft will have a better, improved Windows 10 build that overcomes this snag...

Over the years, the Internet has seduced us into expecting that everything is free. We have forgotten or ignored that the "free" is paid for by advertizing. I accept that when I acquire free software.

However, Windows is not free - I pay hard won money for each and every copy. So why do I now have to also deal with advertizing and concern about protection of private information when I now use Windows?

@OldGeezerTech ... Before converting your 8.1 to 10 let me share my experience when switching from a 'broken' Vista machine to one with 8.1 already installed.

I read here about 8.1 being subject to automatically being updated to Win 10 so I commenced disabling Auto Updates as my first objective. When I installed Thunderbird, my email was totally blank - no email and no address book!

To 'compensate' my Google drive was also transferred to "OneDrive" (which I had NEVER installed). It seems that even when auto-updates ARE disabled, MS wreaks havoc anyway. You know, a ChromeBook is looking more and more "betterer"(sic)!

Caveat Emptor