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[broadstairs]

Posting this as info for those who are deciding to install W10. Taken from another forum I frequent.

This Slate article (you might see an advert but there is a bypass button, top right if it appears) explains what M$ has done to privacy etc with some good tips on closing down the way M$ shares your data, plus some tips on WUDO (the updates sharing part of W10).

Stuart

[kitz]

Very good article with lots of settings to change.
It seems they are all going the same way (Apple, Google, Microsoft)

   
btw another warning that Im seeing a fair bit about over the past few days is windows 10 accessing someone's "photo's" which were stored on his PC and woke up the morning after the upgrade to find said photo's cycling through on his desktop.   Landed him in a bit of hot-water with his wife     

[broadstairs]

btw another warning that Im seeing a fair bit about over the past few days is windows 10 accessing someone's "photo's" which were stored on his PC and woke up the morning after the upgrade to find said photo's cycling through on his desktop.   Landed him in a bit of hot-water with his wife     

  I bet he  and she was 

Stuart

[roseway]

Whoops!

[CrazyTeeka]

Windows 10, finding all the hidden secrets/photos/files, and laying them bare, for all to see, as a wallpaper slide show. 

[renluop]

Windows 10, finding all the hidden secrets/photos/files, and laying them bare, for all to see, as a wallpaper slide show. 

Was that the problem, or that the subjects had lain bare for the photos?

[AArdvark]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/08/windows_10_privacy_problems_here_s_how_bad_they_are_and_how_to_plug_them.single.html

[burakkucat]

I don't think I would ever use any such product from a company that behaves in that fashion. 

[AArdvark]

The main issue for me is that is it such a blatant grab for your data, not 'too hidden' and so many have accepted it all through the 'Insider' Beta and beyond to public release.

Is everyone blind and mad or what !!!

It is worse that Google & Apple.

At least Apple hit you with a 'nice silk covered cushioned cosh' (all the istuff etc) and Google could not be more up-front.
MS have made the most enormous volte-face after attacking everyone else for doing less.
[Sorry this really is beginning to be my Hobby-horse for the rest of the year  ]

[burakkucat]

I think it is just as well that I was using Unix systems before Billy Gates founded M$ . . . 

[AArdvark]

Respect to you for your Perspicacity and good sense to keep with UNIX ( or Linux ......) 

Your M$ will be truer than it ever was if they pull this one off ....... its looking like it going to happen to my disbelief 

[AArdvark]

One last vent (- ette), as my spleen has been working overtime of late  .

As I said to kitz, I expect that the next move will be to re-visit MS hardware.
i.e. Start rolling out hardware made for Windows 10

then *Quelle Surprise*

Start rolling out updates to Win 10 that work *optimally* on said kit (and possibly *only* work there  )
You can, for now, use Win 10 on your old kit but the 'True' experience is only available on Kosher Win 10 certified hardware.
Any similarity to a certain 'Fruit' Company is purely random chance.
 

[broadstairs]

This was already being discussed here. Perhaps these threads should be merged.

Stuart

[AArdvark]

Thanks missed it somehow.

[kitz]

This was already being discussed here. Perhaps these threads should be merged.
Stuart

Done