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Put Down Your Coffee and Admire the Sheer Amount of Your Data Windows 10 Creators Update Will Slurp

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the thanks-Microsoft dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Next week Microsoft will begin the slowish rollout of its big update to Windows 10, the Creators Update.

Right now, it's doing a little damage control, and preempting complaints about privacy, by listing the types of information its operating system will automatically and silently leak from PCs, slabs, and laptops back to Redmond.

When Windows 10 came out, Reg readers were alarmed by the volume of information the software was collecting and sending back to base. Ever since then, Microsoft has been fighting a PR battle to reassure people that such data slurping isn't all bad – it's "just" telemetry and diagnostics and potentially your files.

Now Redmond's had a little rethink for the Creators Update, and decided to come clean on exactly what the software will phone home – even insisting the closed-source operating system will scoop up less surveillance this time.

What makes you think it's your data?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by jasassin on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:11AM (13 children)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:11AM (#490719) Homepage Journal

    I have a windows 10 laptop used just to play netflix with the MS Edge browser. Edge is the only browser that does 4K on netflix. Edge doing a max of 4K and Internet Explorer doing 1080p while chrome on any OS only does 720p.

    So yeah. It's a vile shitstorm. I really really love netflix I was it all the time now, I think its awesome, but it's a really shitty deal what they are pulling with microsoft and the resolution limits.

    I'd love 4K video on chrome. Hell, even 1080p would be great, since I don't have a 4k tv anyway. This 720p bullshit kinda pisses me off.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:38AM (#490750)

    My Honda Accord has developed a clutch problem. Every time I ...

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @08:08AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @08:08AM (#490761)

    I'd rather torrent it. Sure, it's illegal and sometimes immoral, but still better than Win10 :/

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @11:13AM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @11:13AM (#490804)

      Morale is just a majority consensus. If majority thinks it is not immoral it is not.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:14PM (5 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:14PM (#490825) Journal

        Minor nitpick, sorry to be grammar-nazi-like. You meant "Morality is just a majority consensus."

        But, I disagree. There are spiritual leaders and philosophers aplenty who can offer you morals, with no need to refer to some consensus. If morality is just a majority consensus, then mob rule is perfectly fine. Sorry, your moral compass is broken.

        • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:47PM

          by kaszz (4211) on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:47PM (#490864) Journal

          It's usually only the majority that can enforce any morality actively or passively by letting others do the deeds. So mob rule in the end anyway.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @09:21PM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @09:21PM (#490974)
          How do you know it is broken then? If we accept that different personal moralities are all morality there is no way to check which one is correct and therefore "moral" means... what exactly?

          • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 08 2017, @11:30PM (2 children)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 08 2017, @11:30PM (#491010) Journal

            "If we accept"

            You may accept anything. I will not.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @05:16AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @05:16AM (#491082)

              Last time I checked you weren't god either.

              • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:25AM

                by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 09 2017, @11:25AM (#491140) Journal

                Nope - no god at all. Just a discerning individual. Obviously, you are incapable of discerning much about morals. As stated above, you have morals, or you are just part of the mob rule.

  • (Score: 2) by Hyper on Sunday April 09 2017, @01:50PM (3 children)

    by Hyper (1525) on Sunday April 09 2017, @01:50PM (#491156) Journal

    Why do you need 4k if you don't have a 4k tv?

    • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:55PM (2 children)

      by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:55PM (#491347) Homepage Journal

      Why do you need 4k if you don't have a 4k tv?

      I didn't say I needed it I said I'd love it. It'd be great to have a non MS browser capable of 4k. Don't you agree?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @10:16PM (#491356)

        Agreed. Shame that they will not admit that DRM is a lost cause and just made a single service we can all plug into for $10 a month.
        But that would kill movies, dvd sales, make music execs broke, prevent new shows from being created, raise a second holocost this time against musos, kill creativity, and of course start world war 4.

      • (Score: 2) by Hyper on Monday April 10 2017, @01:54PM

        by Hyper (1525) on Monday April 10 2017, @01:54PM (#491622) Journal

        In tne case of Netflix I am puzzled why their app would not do 4K