Re:Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating ...
by 908B64B197 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:40PM
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I keep hearing about telemetry but how bad is it really? Doesn't macOS collects some as well?
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Re:Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating ...
by WorldMaker on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:54PM
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I think it's very similar what macOS collects and what Windows does these days.
I don't know if macOS has a tool like this, but anyone curious exactly what telemetry Windows is collect, Microsoft provides a Diagnostic Data Viewer tool to explore it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/diagnostic-...
There's a ton of documentation at this point on everything Windows collects as telemetry.
(Most of the same telemetry is in Windows 7, fwiw. A lot of the telemetry systems were added in Vista or XP. The biggest change was Windows 10 turned on a lot more of it on by default rather than nagging people to join the various "Customer Experience Improvement Programs" and consolidating all those opt-in/opt-out "improvement programs" from a half-dozen different nag dialogs to a single privacy settings panel.)