Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10
by Bouncingsoul1 on Thursday July 30, 2015 @05:01PM
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And yet to do your tax online in Germany you'll have to use Elster which is Windows only. Telling them I'll sign my pdfs with SHA-256 didn't help... So back to cellulose data carriers
Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10
by FeepingCreature on Thursday July 30, 2015 @06:44PM
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Does ElsterOnline not work for your usecase?
Re:I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10
by Amezarak on Friday July 31, 2015 @08:16AM
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> Transparently syncing documents with an external server that you have absolutely no control over is really nothing such a user wants.
Onedrive on Windows 10 explicitly asked me "what folders do you want to sync?" when it first popped up.
...nor with some private customers. Microsoft seems to be overlooking that not all nations are so happy about "the cloud" as the average American seems to be. Germany for one, where I currently live, is much more sceptical of sharing personal data -- potentially motivated by some of its 20th century history.
But all that aside, a lot of people only used their computer occasionally, say to write a letter (again, Germany, a lot of bureaucracy still requires paper letters over here). Transparently syncing documents with an external server that you have absolutely no control over is really nothing such a user wants.