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Microsoft breaches the Dutch data protection law by processing personal data of people that use the Windows 10 operating system on their computers. This is the conclusion of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) after its investigation of Windows 10 Home and Pro. Microsoft does not clearly inform users about the type of data it uses, and for which purpose. Also, people cannot provide valid consent for the processing of their personal data, because of the approach used by Microsoft. The company does not clearly inform users that it continuously collects personal data about the usage of apps and web surfing behaviour through its web browser Edge, when the default settings are used. Microsoft has indicated that it wants to end all violations. If this is not the case, the Dutch DPA can decide to impose a sanction on Microsoft.
[...] Due to Microsoft's approach users lack control of their data. They are not informed which data are being used for what purpose, neither that based on these data, personalised advertisements and recommendations can be presented, if those users have not opted out from these default settings on installation or afterwards.
[...] Microsoft can use the collected data for the various purposes, described in a very general way. Through this combination of purposes and the lack of transparency Microsoft cannot obtain a legal ground, such as consent, for the processing of data.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 16 2017, @12:10AM (2 children)
Thanks for the tip on Classic Shell, one co-worker has been leading our little group by experimenting with Win10 (rest are still on 7, Windows is required by our customer).
The saga so far -- He bought a high end Lenovo ThinkPad w/Win10Pro several months ago and loaded up a few simple things (not our main tools). Turns it on a few times a week to play with. Every time Win10 decides to update itself it barfs. Most recent update appears to have almost-bricked it. It fails during boot and asks if you want to go back to a previous restore point...but this isn't possible because the update erased previous restore points!
Next is probably a finger pointing game -- will Lenovo blame MS? And vice versa?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday October 16 2017, @12:29AM
Windows 10 is incomplete buggy shit, but one of their better releases in the grand scheme of things. They are by now well-known for having decent versions and "dog" versions.
For example, if you wanted shit to work and (somewhat) reliably, you used win2K. XP was also pretty damn good -- probably by coding the whole OS in a giant "try" block that didn't do anything but at the same time didn't crash the OS like BSODs did for previous versions. But ME, Vista, and 8.x were all dogs.
I suspect 10 will get somewhat usable with patches, and Classic Shell to make it palatable to people who need to actually be productive.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Monday October 16 2017, @07:02AM
Try configuring it to always boot to "VGA graphics" or whatever the setting is called. That's stopped the continous upgrade->boot-is-f*cked->repair->oops-failed-to-repair->do-you-want-to-restore->oops-no-restore-points mess for the VirtualBox VM I have with Win10 Pro in it. Sure, it means I have to change the resolution after each reboot, but at least the damn thing boots now instead of wasting 3h trying to repair itself.