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The administrator of AE News (an online news portal for Czech and Slovak expatriates) writes a very revealing article regarding the Windows 10 collection of user data. Here is the original Czech article. Here is a Bing translation to English. Here is a English condensed version translated by a blogger. And finally a PDF of the original Czech article.
In the post the AE News administrator states:
With the advent of Windows 10, I decided to undergo several tests. The collected knowledge for someone may be alarming. The Windows operating system 10 is essentially the end terminal, more than the operating system, because many of the processes and functions of this system is directly or indirectly dependent on remote servers and databases to Microsoft.
All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
AE News also references an arstechnica.co.uk article which states it might be impossible to stop this communication:
And finally, some traffic seems quite impenetrable. We configured our test virtual machine to use an HTTP and HTTPS proxy (both as a user-level proxy and a system-wide proxy) so that we could more easily monitor its traffic, but Windows 10 seems to make requests to a content delivery network that bypass the proxy."
arstechnica.co.uk also "asked Microsoft if there is any way to disable this additional communication or information about what its purpose is". Microsoft did not reply as to a way to disable this chatter but did respond to the 'additional communication' stating Microsoft is now 'delivering Windows 10 as a service'.
Although the original source for this story is skeptical, Smart nerds on soylentnews can easily fire up Wireshark and reveal the communication for themselves. It appears that MS has fully embraced the cloud where your OS is now a terminal. And regarding privacy? Well, according to arstechnica.co.uk: Windows 10 privacy policy is the new normal
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @08:18PM
Of course, by all means try the competition. We'll see you crawling back because You are already vendor-locked-in.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2015, @09:04PM
Munich says otherwise.
Their guys have found replacements for the closed-source EULAware they had been using.
In the process, they have saved millions.
The last numbers I heard was that they are over 96 percent FOSS and mopping up the final non-FOSS bits.
(EULAs previously had them running a ridiculous IT ecosystem including 21 versions of Windoze.)
The autonomous region of Extremadura in Spain converted 80,000 boxes of their public IT infrastructure to all-FOSS in 1 weekend.
The Gendarmerie Nationale (French militarized police) have converted their 90,000 boxes to all-FOSS.
The Penn Manor school district has converted to FOSS.
The public school system of Brazil uses Linux exclusively.
It is the largest Linux deployment worldwide (500,000 seats in 2011).
Last I heard, Panasonic, Inc. was the second-largest Linux deployment at 300,000 seats.
After getting stung by the Business Software Alliance for $100,000, Ernie Ball, Inc. converted to Linux and hasn't looked back.
Regarding M$, CEO Stuart Ball has used the phrase "When pigs fly".
Sounds like the "locked-in" Windoze-only folks should be talking to the folks who have **already** shed their shackles.
-- gewg_