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Or office. Or autodesk stuff like Maya or 3ds Max. Or many games.
No, because it still has the same vulnerability and you can become a botnet member. Also would be worried about my game accounts using that.
Turn it to Basic Mode and it's fine, even the European Union and its GDPR (which is one of the strongest privacy laws on the books anywhere in the world) say it's fine. If the EU and the GDPR says it fine, who am I to argue?
In the past this wasn't an issue for the consumer. PCs became obsolete on the hardware level forcing an upgrade which upgraded the OS at the same time. I've been rocking my home brew rig for 9 years. It was my main gaming rig, with a graphics card update 5 years ago until the last year. It would struggle with latest games @ high quality but I've a backlog of games that are older that look judy as good that run fine. Long story short Microsoft is asking for upgrades outside the hardware cycle. The public is just not use to that. Whether it was 'free' or not.I keep telling my customers that the decision to stay on Windows 7 is theirs and theirs alone to make. I mention it maybe 4 or 5 times and then stop mentioning it, it's useless at that point if they don't make up their minds or think about it. I will try not to pull a told-you-so down the line on them either.
Lol. No the EU and GDPR don't say "basic mode is fine" -- where are you coming up with this?
No they fired them all
That's a really good point which I'd never considered before. I too have a really old gaming rig. Since building it about 7 years ago I have installed a new ssd, gpu, and doubled the ram, but my old ass athlon x4 keeps handling everything I want it to do. Not the fastest or best graphics settings, but it works!
OS should not be collecting any telementry unless you can turn on and off at will
I'm on Vista 32 with 1GB of RAM, not be choice.......
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Considering the blaster worm would infect you computer before you were even done installing windowsXP it kinda proves that its not a matter of what you are running on your OS if the OS has a severe enough vulnerability.
I use Kaspersky Free and paid malwarebytes, the only issue I had to take care was adding exceptions to both for each program.
Have you actually looked at the data in the Diagnostic Data View app that Microsoft themselves provide? I have, I have looked at the data it collects and sends to Microsoft and I see absolutely nothing in it that is nefarious, bad, evil, or whatever other kind of scary sounding word you can come up with. Full Mode? Yeah, that's bad; I looked at that mode and I was floored by what it collected. Basic Mode? Fine, absolutely fine; nothing to see here folks.
I can agree with that, users should be able to turn it completely off. However, this is how bugs get fixed, crashes get analyzed, etc. Look at Mozilla Bugzilla, you see crash dumps and stack traces all over the place when it comes to reporting crash bugs. This is stuff that is absolutely vital to fixing issues and like Mozilla, Microsoft needs this data too. How else are bugs supposed to be fixed if there's no data to determine why it crashes?
I've often found this funny. People are fine with installing AV software that sends data about what programs you're using to protect them from malware. Antivirus vendor... Good. Microsoft? Evil. Evil. Evil. EVIL!!!
And yet Google and their GMail product does it all the time and nobody bats an eye. But again... Google good, Microsoft EEEEEEEVIL.
Ya I know, my 1st laptop was a Vista 32 w/ 1GB more than a decade ago, bumped it to 2GB and was night and day.
But MS is evil.
Another company doing questionable things doesn't make what they do ok.
Yes officer I killed my wife.... but so did the guy next door go arrest him.
Having said all that... MS is MORE EVIL. Yes they both practice the very shady practice of mining email for their ad engines. Still there is a reason why troll farms and the scum of the internet advertiser barrel buy Bing ads over Google ads. Bing can be hyper targeted compared to google ads. You want to target men age 55-56 married to women with 2-3 adult children n a specific small town in middle america with closet Gay porn issues and a penchant for buying hair dye and boner pills online .... MS ads has you covered for that demographic or any other creepily specific ad targeting. lol