If that's true - doesn't this expose microsoft legally ? I mean we paid for win 7 under certain terms, and now they're changing them.
Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
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Re: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
#102Here is a more in-depth analysis of windows 10 and what is sent to MS http://aeronet.cz/news/analyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-j... For those who don't speak Czech: -It sends all text you type anywhere (not just into search) every 30 minutes to MS. If you type about a holiday to your blog, next day you'll see holiday ads. -Every 30 minutes it sends your geo-location and network information. -If you type a telephone…
Shit, that may just have changed my opinion on this. Is the first one really correct? Anything we type on a PC anywhere? So if I open up tor and load a site it's basically useless because any url I type in tor will go to ms anyways? WTF? Each and every one of those is completely unacceptable.
Anyone know about any good unix distros that wont be too much of a culture shock to someone who has used windows his entire life?
Re: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
#103Here is a more in-depth analysis of windows 10 and what is sent to MS http://aeronet.cz/news/analyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-j... For those who don't speak Czech: -It sends all text you type anywhere (not just into search) every 30 minutes to MS. If you type about a holiday to your blog, next day you'll see holiday ads. -Every 30 minutes it sends your geo-location and network information. -If you type a telephone…
Sounds too crazy to believe. If true, I think I would be forced to stop using windows all together.
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#104Happy linux desktop user here, I only need windows for turbotax once a year, so I will worry about this in Feb/Mar, anyone provides a cloud-based tax filing service?
H&R Block does: http://www.hrblock.com/online-tax-filing/ Disclaimer: I have not used their online version so I don't know how well it works. I have been running their Windows version in a VM the last few years because I'm not wild about putting any more of my tax information "in the cloud" than I have to. I would expect TurboTax to support online filing too, but did not see it on a quick search.
> I don't know how well it works
I've used H&R Block's online service for filing federal and state taxes for the past few years with no issues.
Re: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many of the games I have in my library do not run at all unfortunately. Sometimes I like to go back and play old stuff too.
Wine is always a viable option, especially for older games. With DirectX 11 support coming later this year, almost every Windoze only game should hopefully work.
it's still slower mostly. Mostly since they don't have any specification at all.
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#106So I just started my windows and it seems that I am 'infected' with this anti-privacy stuff. How do I get rid of it? Re-install from the installation disk and disable updates, or can I still remove the updates?
You can remove updates via the control panel.
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#107Brilliant, 2 options I see Never do updates again (which is what I will be doing this evening) and make system perm insecure Or let MS and the NSA rape me for even more data than they already have Go [insert abusive word] yourself Microsoft and to think just last week I got a 3rd windows 7 license because I was planning to stay on 7 long term and not upgrade to 10. Steam hopefully will push linux gaming that i can fi…
Partition your system: Linux for browsing, typing, etc. swindows for gaming and being raped...
Re: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
#108Here is a more in-depth analysis of windows 10 and what is sent to MS http://aeronet.cz/news/analyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-j... For those who don't speak Czech: -It sends all text you type anywhere (not just into search) every 30 minutes to MS. If you type about a holiday to your blog, next day you'll see holiday ads. -Every 30 minutes it sends your geo-location and network information. -If you type a telephone…
Shit, that may just have changed my opinion on this. Is the first one really correct? Anything we type on a PC anywhere? So if I open up tor and load a site it's basically useless because any url I type in tor will go to ms anyways? WTF? Each and every one of those is completely unacceptable. Anyone know about any good unix distros that wont be too much of a culture shock to someone who has used windows his entire li…
I think the one I would most recommend for a newbie is Linux Mint. I don't feel strongly about this. If you don't like it, try something else. But expect some migrating pains regardless; you're used to Windows's warts, now you need to get used to another operating system's warts.
Re: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
#109Here is a more in-depth analysis of windows 10 and what is sent to MS http://aeronet.cz/news/analyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-j... For those who don't speak Czech: -It sends all text you type anywhere (not just into search) every 30 minutes to MS. If you type about a holiday to your blog, next day you'll see holiday ads. -Every 30 minutes it sends your geo-location and network information. -If you type a telephone…
>-If you type anywhere in Windows a name of some movie, Windows will start indexing all your media files after a while and will send it to MS after 30 minutes of your inactivity.
This one really hard to believe. All the others are kind of believable.
>-After 15 minutes of your inactivity or when screensaver is on, network activity ramps up and everything else is being sent to MS.
But what is everything else?
Re: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
#110If that's true - doesn't this expose microsoft legally ? I mean we paid for win 7 under certain terms, and now they're changing them.
One of those terms was that they can change the terms at any time without notice.