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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, Informative) by cellocgw on Sunday April 09 2017, @01:19AM (3 children)

    by cellocgw (4190) on Sunday April 09 2017, @01:19AM (#491030)

    Preaching to the choir here, I suspect, but:

    If you are happy w/ Win7 but want a new machine, there's plenty of cracked Win7 install packages out in torrentland. Buy the new machine, install from ISO or equivalent, and off you go.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:43AM (2 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:43AM (#492064) Journal

    Without trojans?

    • (Score: 2) by cellocgw on Tuesday April 11 2017, @11:11AM (1 child)

      by cellocgw (4190) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @11:11AM (#492213)

      quote: without Trojans? endquote

      That is correct; at least the copy I found

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