Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by Lendal on Monday August 24, 2015 @11:46AM (#10110619)

1) Internet web sites have always been "lit up with speculation".

2) Microsoft's "spying" has been going on since Windows Vista was released, and speculation has gone along with it.

3) Since the 1990's, next year has always been "the year of desktop Linux."

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by Aoyagi on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:08PM (#10110796)

People keep saying that there was spying going on from XP or Vista, but "spying" isn't a binary state. The amount of intended data-slurping has increased incomparably.

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by yuhong on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:34PM (#10111030)

You can choose between telemetry levels in Win10 though.

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by habitue on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:24PM (#10110938)

I think Navarr is fully aware of the Linux desktop meme. It's clearly tongue-in-cheek

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by Navarr on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:43PM (#10111113)

Yes, thank you. Though honestly the people who really do care about this will see the coming year as year of the Linux desktop.

And to me it seems like a lot of HNers care that Windows is sending all this telemetry. (Aren't we the same group that is obsessed with A/B tests and recording analytics on everything a user does on our website?)

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by Moter8 on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:59PM (#10111260)

Agree. There seem to be hundreds of analytics services. Use of those is totally correct, obviously. The more specific the merrier.

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