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Re:German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry anal... by wtallis on Sunday November 25, 2018 @10:13PM (#18530768)
Yep. All of the Windows machines that I actually rely on for work—the ones that I need to be able to start up and immediately use, and need to be able to trust them to keep running without interruption or regression—are completely firewalled off from the public internet, so that they are secure both from malware, and unwanted updates. The rest of my work is done on other, more obedient operating systems.

Windows 95 was capable of 49.7 days of uptime. That's pretty difficult on client versions of Windows 10 unless you take extraordinary measures.

Re:German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry anal... by Spooky23 on Sunday November 25, 2018 @10:28PM (#18530822)
My beef is that Microsoft created an update always culture (a good thing), but they are now “extending” the practice in ways that don’t reflect a customers best interest.

The future, which is subscription models with limited time away from activation servers, breaks your needs fundamentally.

Re:German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry anal... by brokenmachine on Monday November 26, 2018 @10:39PM (#18539136)
>The future, which is subscription models with limited time away from activation servers

My future is not an OS that spies on its users. I hope I'm not in the minority.