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Man, "wi-fi-sense" takes the cake. It's ridiculous that someone had even the idea to create something like that.

Yes, Microsoft's though process regarding telemetry is flat out from the loony bin. "People spend most of their time in the living room - so let's remove the toilet".

From that Neowin thread post by JorgeA: How stupid. They are artificially creating problems in areas that worked just fine before. Worktime well spent! Anyway, more complaining http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1266376-windows-10-privacy-keylogger/?page=1 Had to laugh at this fantard: LOL. The OS atrocities happened after the extensive data minings started. Just by telemetry you won't get any good product. I don't uninstall programs often, but removing the uninstall function would be a catastrophe. But Microsoft is operating on exactly that premise (most networks are on DHCP, so let's remove any other options etc.) and this leads to just retarded results at the end. Fantards: The lowest forms of life.

Well, yes, but this whole thing reached almost perverted dimensions. They outright state that you give them limitless access to anything you do on your PC, and that they may create a digital clone of you on their servers by gathering as much personal data as possible by installing Windows 10 and this isn't considered as that freaky anymore. But actually, it's frigging crazy. I just cannot accept this as normal anymore. It's as if I would "declare" that when I enter a supermarket, the supermarket agrees to be robbed by me and I can steal from any person inside the supermarket as well if I wish, with no legal repurcussions. The supermarket accepts this licensing terms the moment I enter the market. And my excuse would be "the supermarket should have read my licensing agreement when I entered! It's 30 pages long and in my bag!". Windows 10 ads appear automatically on all Windows 7 and 8.1 machines, unless they are actively blocked, and they don't make the user aware of the grave data mining Windows 10 does. It's actually not that customers seek out to get Windows 10 - Windows 10 comes to them! My supermarket example is not that far off. Of course, Facebook and Google are thirsty for data as well, but it's easy to avoid them: don't post much on facebook and purge the browser after a google session and they don't have much to track. But Windows 10 is facebook on your own computer, active all the time. That's far more serious. I am so sick of it what happened to computing.

Maybe we can bring your guy to the edge of the galaxy with this additional Windows 10 fuel: Advertising. Many of our services are supported by advertising. We use the data we collect to help select the ads Microsoft delivers - whether on our own services or on services offered by third parties. The ads we select may be based on your current location, search query, or the content you are viewing. Other ads are targeted based on your likely interests or other information that we learn about you over time using demographic data, search queries, interests and favorites, usage data, and location data - which we refer to as "interest-based advertising" Data Sharing.In some cases, we share with advertisers reports about the data we have collected on their sites or ads. We may also share data directly with service providers to permit them to provide services on our behalf or to partner with us in selecting and serving ads for our advertising partners. For instance, Microsoft uses a service provider to match your Microsoft cookie ID and account data with data an advertiser may have about you (such as your recent purchases from them). This is done so the advertiser can reach you with an ad it thinks may be relevant to you. Usage and connectivity data. Microsoft regularly collects basic information about your Windows device including usage data, app compatibility data, and network and connectivity information. This data is transmitted to Microsoft and stored with one or more unique identifiers that can help us recognize an individual user on an individual device and understand the device's service issues and use patterns. The data we collect includes: The software (including drivers and firmware supplied by device manufacturers), installed on the device. App use data for apps that run on Windows (including Microsoft and third party apps), such as how frequently and for how long you use apps, which app features you use most often, how often you use Windows Help and Support, which services you use to sign into apps, and how many folders you typically create on your desktop. Network and connection data, such as the device's IP address, number of network connections in use, and data about the networks you connect to, such as mobile networks, Bluetooth, and identifiers (BSSID and SSID), connection requirements and speed of Wi-Fi networks you connect to. Other hardware devices connected to the device. Some diagnostic data is vital to the operation of Windows and cannot be turned off if you use Windows.

Speaking about remembrance-issues.. remember this? Well, scroogled.com is no longer active and for a good reason. Here's the Windows 10 EULA: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.aspx Talk about getting Microsofted! And that's just an small excerpt, it goes on and on in that way. I miss the time when phone home or a serial number in Pentium 3 chips generated outcries. Sometimes the outcries were a bit ridiculous ("Vista DRM") but I would rather have that atmosphere than what we have now. Just by installing a darn OS you're basically granting MS a subscription to all of your life. That's just not sane anymore. And it's not just words and what-ifs, the infrastructure to collect all this data is built-in into the OS.

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-review-microsoft-goes-back-to-the-future Aha. Just hinting at this on the neowin forums resulted in bans not too long ago. And the same Brad Sams who wrote the above quote wrote back then this: http://www.neowin.net/news/calling-windows-8-the-next-vista-makes-you-look-like-an-id*** People can be so slimy and turncoaty it makes you sick sometimes.

For now. Windows 8/8.1 is a POS in vanilla-state but at least it's a beast which can be tamed. But Windows 10 with its update scheme is an outright liability. They could force through Windows Update a GUI far worse than W8's metro onto it and block classic shell while they are at it, and if you try to stop that update somehow, MS declared that they might "punish you" and cut you off from security updates. Given this, Windows 10 is the worst Windows thus far.

You got it wrong : -Uploader tool: It automagically uploads your documents to an intelligency agency of your their choice, that way bandwidth will be saved. WROOOONG [Neowin/Channel9 mode=ON] Unlike EVIL Google and Apple, Microsoft will offer that choice to the users! See, Microsoft cares. Stop hating and trolling! [Neowin/Channel9 mode=OFF]

Given the progress of Windows 10, here are the probable features of W12: -Built-in hardware-destroyer (CPU & GPU overheater) that activates when you were offline for more than a day. You know, hackers might do funny stuff with your PC otherwise! -Automatic credit-card charger for the crapstore: It charges 10$ for every day you don't buy something to check whether everything's alright! -Uploader tool: It automagically uploads your documents to an intelligency agency of your choice, that way bandwidth will be saved. -Fart app choice screen on every boot-up.

They are copying NuMicrosoft of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some subcouncious deep-seated sexual connotation with all this. Users all around the world being forced to accept any updates all the time, if they decline them you punish them, you can change their UIs at whim for something far worse and if they complain THEY are at fault and you can call them names (luddite! afraid of change!) You don't need much fantasy to see a sado-masochist theme going on there. It's no secret that many dominatrix-customers are well-off business people: http://www.alternet.org/story/155087/sex_escape%3A_why_do_men_go_to_dominatrixes Could it be that all these forcing from software companies in recent time is the result of CEOs and managers acting their pent-up BDSM-fantasies on the customers? Sadism on the customers to make all the masochist whipping in the studio afterwards all the more exciting and releasing!

From the Forbes article: Are they completey out of their rotten mind?!?!?!?!?!!! Does that mean if I stop Windows Update by disabling its service for a while, Microsoft will punish me by stopping all Windows updates in the future? Sick ! No really, THEM. We are their customers not inmates. This takes it way too far. This is not funny anymore.

I think yes. But I would just try it, maybe the problem won't happen on your configuration. At worse you would just need to hide the updates on WU (which is possible on Windows 8.1).

https://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Faulty-update-time-And-again-W10 Yeah, I know I am wasting my darn time there. But the Office problem I described there really happened (an update from WU crippled Outlook 2010 and so I had to hide it) So I thought it would be a great opportunity to see what the apologizers will come up this time with to still rationalize W10's behavior in such case (where this is not possible anymore) Well. You see, MS will just stop producing buggy updates! No need to worry!

Funny: http://betanews.com/2015/07/23/should-apple-keep-making-ipads/ "Should Apple keep making iPads?". OK, the article says yes but that they are already asking this question..

I had a positive experience for once. The newest Catalyst solved an annoying problem for me that I thought would never be fixed. Some youtube videos brought this PC (HD 6870 card) to its knees if you viewed them in 1080p. But this occured only if hardware accleration in flash was enabled (if you disable HW-A, some other annoying problems start to happen though). I found a forum entry a while back where lots of users with HD6000 cards had the same problem. I even submitted a bug report a few months ago to AMD with a link to that thread. I tried various older drivers and they all had this problem as well. The newest Catalayst finally fixed this issue. I was genuinely surprised.

I was away for a few weeks and wasn't following any W10/metrotard news at all. Anything important happened?

Hahaha, Microsoft's madness with WIndows Update leads to desperate measures by OEMs... http://winsupersite.com/windows/samsung-decides-some-systems-do-not-need-windows-update-turned

I think the main culprit is the GWX update (KB3035583). I have all others installed except GWX and I don't get the ad in Windows Update.

God. I thought it's a photoshop, but actually they are really doing this. http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/make-your-windows-10-reservation-windows-update I don't get this screen in WU. Probably because I have de-installed the GWX "update".

The fanboys don't like the Skype news. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Modern-Skype-is-dead?page=2

Does this ever stop? The newest patch day contained again a W10 updater thingie. https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/kb/2952664

It's funny that non-USB floppy drives are still supported natively though (if you run W10 in a VMWare VM, the virtualizer usually creates a virtual floppy-disk-controller floppy drive for config files and W10 can access it).

Speaks volumes about the times we live in when multiple instances of calc are awesome news.

I got this new batch of optional W10 preperations as well on W7.