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France takes issue with the amount of data collection Microsoft's Windows 10 imposes on its users.
France is not happy with Microsoft's Windows 10, and it has nothing to do with the annoying update reminders. In a report, the CNIL (France's data protection commission) has called the user data collection in Windows 10 "excessive."
The CNIL specifically highlighted the ways in which Microsoft collects data on every app downloaded and installed by a user, and how much time the user spends in each app. The report calls attention to a security concern: there is no limit to the amount of times someone can incorrectly attempt to guess the 4-digit PIN that users place on their accounts.
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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 21 2016, @07:14PM
The non-Microsoft offerings are rather slim
What's available gets steadily better.
...and schools LOVE Chromebooks; very affordable and Good Enough(tm).
Very recently, I saw an announcement that Crossover (WINE) is running on Chromebooks.
If your .edu/.org/.com has a tech guy, having him put Ubuntu|Bodhi|another distro on those Chromebooks is another option.
ISTM you're only limited by your imagination.
...and, when you go outside the USA, the availability picture changes, with pre-installed choices on laptops being even wider than what's going on in The States.
I'm a *nix guy, so the monopoly doesn't mean a whole lot to me
I'm a don't-throw-that-away,-it's-still-useful kind of guy.
I have gear still running of a vintage that Windoze users would turn up their noses at, saying "That won't get the job done".
...and, yeah, there's a bunch of us who have found that we can do what we need to without using needing anything of Redmond's.
Running Linux on old gear does all the tasks I do.
With the employment/income picture becoming increasingly worse for many, I expect to see more and more folks going the route I have taken WRT old hardware and Free(dom) Software.
The increasingly slow sales figures for PCs seems to say it's already happening.
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Getting back to the original topic, by the time the French regulators get around to actually doing anything, I expect M$ to have a "new" offering and to rename that Windoze 11, at which point the regulation process will have to start all over from scratch.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @10:28PM
I have gear still running of a vintage that Windoze users would turn up their noses at, saying "That won't get the job done".
You and millions of other people.
What makes this 'windows' user turn his nose up is the silliness people expect out of their computer. "I just got this copy of diablo 3 can you get it to run on this computer I bought in 2002"? No. Well yes I can actually. But the cost to do so will be more than the computer is worth and you will basically be buying a whole new computer (the computer of Theseus). For something like that I usually recommend something very bare bones with enough video card to make it work. Or the other one is the 'Yeah I will never give up XP' Thats nice, other than there has not been *any* patches for vulins in 2 years. You would not run something like RHE 2.x from 2001. It is well outside of its maintenance window. You move on.
Oh just use linux on those computers. That is 'ok' for now. Except for the fact many distros are considering going 64 bit distro only. You will be able to get 32 bit vers for awhile but eventually people are going to just tell you to let it go. Or you better get a *lot* better about compiling your own. Which is not 'hard' but is tedious.
I have junk kicking around here from the early 80s. But I am a bit more practical about it. For example this laptop I am using (about 4 years old). It works pretty good. But I am starting to run into the occasional game I can not play very well. So maybe mid next year I will start looking into something with a nice screen, decent memory, a higher end CPU, decent built in vid. I will then recycle this stuff to the rest of the family.
I expect M$
Are you 12? That joke is older than XP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @06:59PM
the silliness people expect out of their computer
Some years back, Leo Laporte had a caller whose box had failed.
She used the thing to create WordStar documents and print them.
Leo suggested that she run out and buy a bleeding-edge Windoze system and start using M$Word.
I shot him an email that noted that a used 486 running FreeDOS and Eric Meyer's shareware VDE (Video Display Editor) would do everything she needed for a tiny number of dollars.
I also noted that he should stop being such a spendthrift with other people's money.
I lost all interest in Leo about that time.
So, expectations can differ greatly, according to the user.
diablo 3
I don't use my computer to play games, so my point of reference is different from yours.
Nonetheless, my old gear does all that I ask of it.
computer I bought in 2002
I have gear older than that, happily running Linux and FOSS apps.
This got rejected as a submission (editors are also Windoze fanboys?), but it serves to make my point WRT the vintage of hardware and user expectations.
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That [M$] joke
It's not a joke, Junior--and it applies now more than ever.
It's a reference to a rogue operation that abuses its users and hasn't been reined in properly by regulators.
(Regulators do a bit better in the EU, but still...)
The day that Redmond stops suing Linux users by making bogus patent claims is the day I rethink my use of that.
No one should hold his breath waiting for that.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]