Windows 10's End-Of-Year Report Card

CreepyUncleGoogle said:
Your Google-fu is lame (intentionally?). I typed in "Windows 10 MarkMonitor" and hit enter. Here's a thing-y:

http://gizmodo.com/hardcore-pirates-are-reportedly-banning-windows-10-1726044389

and this one sorta confirms it from a MS engineer on their forum:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...0/1eb016f0-ca06-4ad8-8e60-d1f7553961f0?auth=1
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Even a yahoo search could reveal this, however there is no need to believe anyone. Run wireshark on your system and see for yourself... I personally did not believe it until I saw it in person on my own machine. I think you will be stunned with what you see.
 
KarsusTG said:
Even a yahoo search could reveal this, however there is no need to believe anyone. Run wireshark on your system and see for yourself... I personally did not believe it until I saw it in person on my own machine. I think you will be stunned with what you see.
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I don't have a Win10 box to check in on anything now, but I don't doubt that there's a lot of information leaving the machine. It'll come back to haunt Microsoft later as that stuff comes to light or if the information/collection mechanisms are used maliciously. Not that I think it'll change much really. I hate to use a heatlesssun-style excuse, but people already accept a lot of that from other companies and probably won't care much if it happens to them on Windows too.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
I don't have a Win10 box to check in on anything now, but I don't doubt that there's a lot of information leaving the machine. It'll come back to haunt Microsoft later as that stuff comes to light or if the information/collection mechanisms are used maliciously. Not that I think it'll change much really. I hate to use a heatlesssun-style excuse, but people already accept a lot of that from other companies and probably won't care much if it happens to them on Windows too.
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I was already 75-80% Linux when W10 hit so it was no great leap to just move full time. I rarely even use the W7 vm that I keep around for those "just in case" situations.
 
KarsusTG said:
I was already 75-80% Linux when W10 hit so it was no great leap to just move full time. I rarely even use the W7 vm that I keep around for those "just in case" situations.
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I'm at about 80% Linux computing time at the moment. I still have Windows 7 installed as the native OS on a netbook for work stuff since they require some weird combination of browser and OS that only Windows 7 and Vista can provide. I can't VM (or won't anyhow) Windows because my main PC is an old Asus Eeee with an Atom n270 and that'd be a pretty bad experience. Mint is fine on it though. :)

I had intended to move to a newer Asus EeeBook this Christmas (an x205ta) but the hardware is some of the most obnoxiously difficult I've bumped into and I really should have done better research before going "Oh, that's a cute little PC with a really good price for a refurb!" and buying it. There's like literally been a year long effort on the Ubuntu forums (33 pages of posts starting in like September of 2014 and running until like two days ago for the most recent post) of people struggling to get a stable, working install. :( I should have gotten an HP Stream, but I really thought Asus wouldn't make Linux such an impossible venture. It's stuck on 8.1 for the foreseeable future and I'm still on the ancient n270 for pretty much all my daily computing stuff.
 
I would give 10 a big fat F all across the board. That is just my opinion. I was an insider for months before it went RTM. I used it in a virtual computer. Honestly, it seemed at the time that the Solitaire app was the only redeeming quality. For the most part, it seemed a continuation of going down the wrong road, as they shoehorned everything into a godawful interface. Allow me to put this in perspective. I have been in corporate IT for 15 years, and the corporate world has a motto of if it ain't broke....

Microsoft for years has moved the cheese so to speak and dumbed things down for the least common denominator. Now they shoehorned mobile into the desktop world, and it still is lacking in my opinion. Yes, to some extent, I am old school, asd I believe an operating system should allow you to interact with the computer, but it should not be doing the excess tracking, as there are some activities that do not require a net connection.
 
If win 10 was so good why is microsofty ramming it down everyone's throat. Every time I see it on a screen at bestbuy or wallyworld I get bowl movement.
 
mullet said:
If win 10 was so good why is microsofty ramming it down everyone's throat. Every time I see it on a screen at bestbuy or wallyworld I get bowl movement.
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When a subject gets charged like this one can on the Internet, it's easy to forget some important points. For many years now, the bulk of Windows PC NEVER got an OS upgrade. On of the reasons why Microsoft is doing the free upgrade for a year with Windows 10 is that it ultimately doesn't cost them than much money as most of the people that upgraded, willing or not, would have never upgraded anyway.
 
zamaracrillio said:
Good points, though telemetry can be disabled with 3rd party soft.
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The fact that 3rd party software is required in order to disable telemetry would tend to support my position :) Since I don't run Win10 personally, I haven't done a ton of research into how to override the telemetry settings in non-enterprise versions.
 
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