With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

Post by anonbanker » Fri, Aug 19, 2016, 4:53 PM UTC

ben_jones wrote: post #174

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Some highlights: Microsoft installed an app in users’ system trays advertising the free upgrade to Windows 10. Not satisfied, the company eventually made Windows 10 a recommended update so users receiving critical security updates were now also downloading an entirely new operating system onto their machines without their knowledge. This is essentially equivalent to saying: You've been running whatever version of Win…

And yet the game Overwatch doesn't have an OSX port so I have windows 10 setup as a dual-boot option. It seems that Microsoft has correctly deduced that users don't really give a fuck. They'll throw a hissy fit, they'll make all sorts of blog posts, but at the end of the day the majority are still staring at a windows 10 installation screen and dealing with it.

Post by anonbanker » Fri, Aug 19, 2016, 4:57 PM UTC

brokenmachine wrote: post #302

r00fus wrote: post #242

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Once you stop playing games (it happens eventually for many of us), your need to have Windows around will drop considerably. Are there any killer apps other than games to have Windows around @home?

Unfortunately I need to stay with Windows for the moment only for Ableton Live, which is IMO the best Pro Audio/Music creation tool. I can't run it in a VM because only basic sound features work in a VM (I'm using a PCI soundcard, actually thinking about it now, maybe USB3 soundcards could work well in a VM?). Also Photoshop is pretty much the gold standard for image editing, but I could be happy running that in a VM…

Post by anonbanker » Fri, Aug 19, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

MR4D wrote: post #298

0xmohit wrote: post #2

Some highlights: Microsoft installed an app in users’ system trays advertising the free upgrade to Windows 10. Not satisfied, the company eventually made Windows 10 a recommended update so users receiving critical security updates were now also downloading an entirely new operating system onto their machines without their knowledge. This is essentially equivalent to saying: You've been running whatever version of Win…

Interesting thought... If Microsoft forces a new version on your computer, and you refuse the EULA, what happens? Second thought - if you can't undo the install upon refusing the EULA, has Microsoft committed a crime of computer vandalism by (in effect) bricking your computer? Something tells me that some smart lawyers are going to blast some holes in this. Especially from a trade secret perspective where some smart…

Post by graycat » Fri, Aug 19, 2016, 7:51 PM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #257

graycat wrote: post #104

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> There is probably a registry value you can change to do so though. Thanks, but with "probably" I sense that I'm about to get into what I call "mud wrestling" or hours or days of just throwing wild guesses against a wall to see if any appear to stick. I've only got 365 days a year, and I've given away far too many of them to such mud wrestling. GOD knows I do NOT want to do more of that. For physical things, say, an…

Why don't you want security updates? Personally, on all OSes I use I just want security updates to happen. My time is too valuable for me to go reading about every minor security update, when I will just install it anyway.

Post by rasz_pl » Sat, Aug 20, 2016, 10:44 AM UTC

Senji wrote: post #378

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Do you know any windows dns cache programs able to filter per application sending a query? Is it even possible in Windows to do that? Something that would allow chrome.exe full access, but block all dns queries from svchost.exe process?

You would need a software firewall for that.( Komodo? ) Not a cache server. Though running your own dns server on top of that would be nice too.