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?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:22AM (4 children)
Maybe afraid you'll throw your cup at the screen?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:43AM
How did you know I had a cup of coffee? . . . "Alice! Check the WiFi router, and see if the Mr. Coffee has an IP address. Never mind why, just do it!"
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:31AM (2 children)
No reason to. I'm using Plan 9.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday April 08 2017, @11:34AM (1 child)
As a coffee cup or as a screen?
compiling...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 08 2017, @12:07PM
As anti-MS... mmm... telemetry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford