Microsoft Blatantly Disregards User Choice and Privacy

[michalrz]

LOL! Dude, if you say so, LOL! Last time I checked, I receive ZERO from Microsoft but hey, you carry on believing the lie, LOL!

Basically, if I am not bitching, whining and complaining, I must be an apologist, LOL! Tells you more about something about others than about myself.

No disrespect, but the right answers in the face of such continous calling out would be: 1) silence 2) "no, u" 3) "leave me alone I'm not breaking any forum rules".
Polarizing members by recognizing only die-hard moaners and apologists is exactly the strawman that is not meant to silence your interlocutor but instead to fuel the fire.

 

[ManofGod]

No disrespect, but the right answers in the face of such continous calling out would be: 1) silence 2) "no, u" 3) "leave me alone I'm not breaking any forum rules".
Polarizing members by recognizing only die-hard moaners and apologists is exactly the strawman that is not meant to silence your interlocutor but instead to fuel the fire.

Well, some days are better than others. Honestly, most of these Microsoft threads are posted for the hits they create here and not so much for the information. However, I still hope they continue to make threads because they do provide a heads up from time to time as well. Is their forums though so they can do whatever they want with them.

 

[michalrz]

Well, some days are better than others. Honestly, most of these Microsoft threads are posted for the hits they create here and not so much for the information. However, I still hope they continue to make threads because they do provide a heads up from time to time as well. Is their forums though so they can do whatever they want with them.

All news is a heads-up, brevity focused conversation starter.
If there was no issue, and the threads were just clickbait, you wouldn't see [H] going on for a dozen pages. Normally "water is wet" news don't gather crowds. If Steve/KBN were posting crap, the community would call them out for this.
If you think this uproar is the result of wrong assumptions about the product, you need to address the claims themselves without going into why they are an issue for someone.
My issue with the news here is that they could be rolled up into the following trends:
1. MS is setting questionable defaults for personal data related features. Then they re-set them after user intervention. Then some of the settings become moved/removed. Then Enterprise users are provided with granular control over all settings. If someone got to keep those switches, then Microsoft did listen and deliver the feature. So Microsoft itself recognizes this as a potential issue.
2. Features are disappearing or becoming otherwise harder to find and use. This is in contrast with what is stated in the Lifecycle Factsheet. Updates can add or fix, period.
3. Control over local installations of Windows is becoming limited by push updates that cannot be prevented on all systems.

This is basically the basic theme hiding in all these news articles. We're basically having the same discussions over and over and over again. And with each iteration, posters from both camps are losing their patience. That's why the call-outs and namecalling (moaners, shills, tin foil hats, control freaks...) are increasing.