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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, Insightful) by richtopia on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:01PM (2 children)
I can understand Microsoft ignoring everyone posting "I switched to Linux 10 years ago suckers", but I would think that companies paranoid about intellectual property would be very against uploading data to Microsoft. Yet with new processors only supporting Win10 and the end of life coming for Win7 and 8 I don't see much of an alternative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @01:47PM (1 child)
They are supposed to be able to turn it off. I checked the windows10 machine I use at work. It is still sending data to microsoft.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:28AM
You got to firewall machines infected with Microsoft and rip out the WiFi hardware (or antenna, simpler).