Windows 10: Microsoft Brings Their Spying Features From Windows 10 to 7 & 8

Simple solution is don't use any MS product. Use Linux...

 

I'll echo Bunny J and say - go with Linux. MS, Apple, Google are all 'harvesting' tons of data about your various habits. It's really pretty bad what is considered acceptable nowadays. but people put up with it, and there it is. Commerce rules in this world. If you're not cool with being a product, you need to opt out. I'm considering it myself.

 

Did you ever expect them to? If that's your standard, you would never have purchased any Windows version.

How about Caterpillar Tractor, Tupperware, Organization X, or the politician of your choice?

They say that love makes the world go around, but the last I heard, something else greases the wheels.

 

That may be a suitable comment for Windows 10, everyone knew what they were getting Windows 10 'phoning home' habits were well advertised. However this is not true with Windows 7 basically after 5 years of a superbly stable operating system they are sneaking these things under the hood of 'updates' they are almost certainly more to Microsoft s benefit than the user.

Not sure if this is anything to do with the above problem but I keep getting GWX.exe errors on my windows 7 instilation.

zoo

 

One has to ask themselves why would Microsoft give away for free an OS as Good as Windows 10 is? The only answer I can come up with is advertising revenue. It is something like the discount card you get at a supermarket. You get a discount on certain items , and the discount at the sore is applied at their gas tanks. But they have a track record of everything that anyone with the card buys. They can figure out what to stock and how much to charge based on the shopping habits of the consumer. This is what I believe that Microsoft is doing, tracking where you go what you purchase as a marketing tool and nothing more. They are not tracking every word you type or have any sort of keystroke logger. Microsoft is not known for giving any thing away for free so this is what I think, I may be way off but there has to be a reason.

 

. . .This just seems to on and on. For those of you who just cannot get over the fact that you believe that Microsoft is spying on you with Windows 10 then why are you even using it?. . .never mine answering that question it just would be total. . .*Huh

 

They are not spying on you in the literal sense , just using it as a marking tool much like Google does, IMHO.

 

XP is already no longer supported. Win 7 will eventually reach the same state. But in both cases, you can still use them -- they'll just be unsafe.

Besides, both will die a slow death because hardware supplier will quit making drivers for them. So, when your printer wears out, any replacement will only work with Win8.x or Win10.

 

This works both ways. When I went to Win 7 from Vista, my AIO Printer would not work and the company would not update their drivers.

 

That would absolutely kill the relevance of the entire forum , forums must have opposing viewpoints and differing opinions as that's what make them helpful and interesting to read .

Nobody always agrees (thank God) , and personal attacks on others shouldn't be tolerated of course but not liking a thread because of strong opinions being tossed around is certainly no reason to have it closed.

A few were closed that shouldn't have been already imo , some people are just way too sensitive , there is nothing wrong with strong opposing viewpoints at all .

 

Microsoft isn't spying on you. No one cares what music you listen to or what kind of porn you watch on your computer.

 

What if Microsoft is a double agent...........TC snickers under his breath

 

Ha ha ha , MS looking out for someone's best interest's , does anyone actually think that ? No way , no how , MS would take you out in a second if they thought they could get away with it.

Of course they give you the nod and smile to make you think like they care (and apparently some believe it) but make no mistake , they would toss your body down an abandoned mining shaft without even thinking about it if they thought nobody would see it .

I personally like that type of attitude in a computer company.

 

Part of the issues is those who use Windows 7 and 8 are essentially receiving the Windows 10 treatment as it pertains to telemetry data. It's not always about your own opinion; sometimes it's best to put yourself in others' shoes. I say this because I like a lot of your opinions. *Wink

Not wanting to speak for everyone, I still view privacy as an issue worth standing up for. As other have so eloquently put it, this is not just a Microsoft issue but one that is part of the Internet as a whole. For the record I don't believe Microsoft is spying on me; rather, I would prefer to not be advertised to everywhere I go. Yes, I know there is no escaping advertising. I'm still allowed to not be a fan of it.


Well, since I care about my privacy I must be a tinfoil hat wearer. I'm also not allowed to complain about Microsoft's telemetry data because I use the Internet and they do it too. (Don't worry; no logical fallacies in that argument).

P.S. Is it possible to get my tinfoil hat in green? Grey is just so drab.

 

They won't brick XP, W7 and/or the W8 series.
They just won't bother to optimise the patches, so those machines will slow down (making W10 look faster).

On my PC, just before XP's end of support it slowed down (no software other than patches had been added to it).

The same thing happened to W7 a few months before W8 was released.
It used to take 35s to 45s to boot (I even saw the occasional sub-30s boot).
After around July 2012, it started taking 50s to 60s to boot.

Of course I don't keep a diary of my OS boot times so I have no proof.

What do you mean by "literal sense"?

IMO, unwanted surveillance is spying.
I have previously posted that all of this "spyware" should be off by default and users should have to explicitly turn it on.

It's interesting how Corporations can get away with activities that would get individuals imprisoned.
If you or I followed someone around with a camera and mike, 24 hours a day, we could be arrested and imprisoned.

The Corporations, Cyber-criminals and the Governments care, a lot.

Corporations want to sell you junk.
Cyber-criminals want to steal your ID.
Governments want to crack down on dissent (oops ... I meant "protect your safety").