Microsoft Claims 71% Of Windows 10 Users Are Happy With Telemetry

This is why we won't be rolling W10 out any time soon. In its current state, it's impossible for Windows 10 to be HIPAA compliant.

Just because they stop patching it doesn't mean you have to stop using it. Look at the market that Windows XP still has.

wait a minute.

xp is supported until 2019. with a little reg hack anyway.
 
I'm still on 7. I'll switch when I feel like it. Right now there is no compelling reason to switch. And when I do, I'll switch primarily to Linux and then use win 10 for gaming. Though the next Windows will most likely be out by then.
 
71% of users simply don't care, including me. They may collect all of my data and it's not going to affect my life one bit. It makes absolutely no difference from my perspective.
It doesn't until it does. I'd rather not take that chance. What if they decide that viewing anti sjw videos on youtube is a thought crime and they come after me based on the collected data? We're closer to 1980 than we ever been, and we're only getting closer. All out spying on computer users, fascistic identity politics, and silencing of dissenting voices. That's where we are at socially.
 
I'm still on 7. I'll switch when I feel like it. Right now there is no compelling reason to switch. And when I do, I'll switch primarily to Linux and then use win 10 for gaming. Though the next Windows will most likely be out by then.

Do that now... you'll be happier. By the time 7 goes in a few years perhaps just perhaps if enough people start going dual before hand and playing at least a handful of games under Linux, none of us will feel the need to install windows for gaming. Support for Linux gaming has come a long way in the last 4 years. 2020 is still a few years off... if people continue to support Linux there is a good chance windows will have no valid use cases by 2020 that can't be 100% solved by Linux. (as it is right now gaming is the one and only reason I can think of to put up with MS)
 
Do that now... you'll be happier. By the time 7 goes in a few years perhaps just perhaps if enough people start going dual before hand and playing at least a handful of games under Linux, none of us will feel the need to install windows for gaming. Support for Linux gaming has come a long way in the last 4 years. 2020 is still a few years off... if people continue to support Linux there is a good chance windows will have no valid use cases by 2020 that can't be 100% solved by Linux. (as it is right now gaming is the one and only reason I can think of to put up with MS)

That's some good logic. Though I'm more hindered by my laziness than anything lol.
 
did you retire your haswell box for a celeron?

I've not seen this issue on my box granted I have to more cores but still.

Like i said, I never had a problem with it since W10 released, except about a week ago it just started going absolutely nuts. I hit ctrl+shft+esc and saw it was CompatTelRunner.exe. I don't know what it was doing but it was literally running my CPU at like 80%. After that I said screw it and just turned it off.
 
Telemetry is how they know I frequently paste screenshots into Paint, so they know to monetize that
 
Hope you don't die when MS stops patching Windows 7 on January 14, 2020.

Doubt that. I still use XP on a laptop. You think everyone in the world immediately dumps their old stuff the day it stops being patched?

He won't die he will just be the newest victim of Identify theft after someone hacks his unpatched box.

And I hope he comes back to this thread on that day!

Why would someone steal my ID from my computer? Are you actually dumb enough to do your banking on your computer? I don't.
 
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Fun fact: The difference in volume of data collected and frequency of reporting between Windows 7 and Windows 10 is insignificant. Don't believe it? Fire up your protocol analyzer of choice and keep an eye on traffic to the following addresses:
  • settings-win.data.microsoft.com
  • vortex-win.data.microsoft.com

The difference from 7 to 10 is, MS now gives you upfront options for limiting data collection. Of course, no good deed goes unpunished.
Weren't those added in later via specific updates? In other words, you can completely avoid those and use Windows 7 without additional telemetry added? If Windows 10 had that kind of moddability, there wouldn't be half the number of complaints that there are.

happy with or unaware of?

there's a huge distinction.
Not to Microsoft.
 
So we're here complaining about Windows and Microsoft. Sure, valid points. But what are you going to do about it? Are you going to switch to something else?

Maybe you should. Gaming on Linux is awesome, try it out -> http://Ubuntu.com
 
a better measuring stick would be if MS offered a 'Full Diagnostics', Basic and OFF option...right now you can't disable it and the lowest available setting is Basic...so you can't really say that 71% of people are happy with it enabled...that's total BS...with this kind of bogus market research it shows that telemetry and spying is only going to get worse with Windows 10
 
I've been running Win10 Pro for testing on other machines, but I have yet to test LTSB. Anyone know if Win10 LTSB got telemetry shiznit?
 
This will happen sooner than you think, 7's market share is bound to crash soon and the need for new API's in the gaming scene (Which is the best seller for new computers/parts right now on consumer level) will force the issue faster.

Linux is something I've wanted to switch to for ages, just waiting on the new API's to mature as even Dx12 is easy to emulate over Vulkan, so, yeah.

Well I'm in my mid-40s. Currently I think there are perhaps 1-2 new games (such as Forza Horizon 3) l I might want to play but the fact that they require Windows 10 turns me off completely. To me Windows 10 is just Windows Vista with tiles. Once all new games require DX12 I doubt I'll be much into games at that point.

I think operating systems tend to crash market-wise when the hardware manufacturers completely cease supporting them. As long as hardware can be bought that works with XP/Win7 I'll be fine. In fact to future-proof myself I have a spare motherboard and video card that matches my main machine, and, when my sons go off to college their current machines will be replaced with laptops so there's a few more to add to my boneyard.

I still have several working machines that support older versions of Windows and for fun I get them out from time to time to see how they act. Surprisingly W98SE functions better than you think even on the "modern" internet. Win95c at this point barely functions on the internet. The Win95 machine dual boots with BeOS which still functions decently on the internet believe it or not.

The vast majority of what I still actually play day to day gaming-wise came out almost 20 years ago (games like CS/UT99 - as long as my friends are interested in having a server up on the weekends we'll be playing). Even 99% of the newer games still work with Windows 7 so there's no motivation to upgrade. By the time I'm forced to upgrade due to lack of content available for Win7 it probably won't matter.

Never cared for Linux - just never saw the point in using it as a desktop OS replacement for MacOS or Windows.
 
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Happily using each iterations of MS software since MS DOS and Intel 386 (See yesterday's Intel thread. Apparently I'm a hardcore fanboy because I use Intel).
Just the fact that you posted this comment, confirms your status, just saying.
 
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Ah nuts, I read the blog, which I realize is against being [H]! ;) :D The thread title and the article makes a claim that the blog does not and therefore, MS hate thread number 2,400.001. :D
 
Every few days Windows 10 asks me if i want to delete my windows 7 duel boot os on a completely seperate hard drive Via Large popup window with only 2 buttons to click. If i just happen to accidentally hit delete one day i'll kill someone.
 
Ah nuts, I read the blog, which I realize is against being [H]! ;) :D The thread title and the article makes a claim that the blog does not and therefore, MS hate thread number 2,400.001. :D
snip from article "71 percent of customers are selecting Full diagnostics data to help us fix things and improve Microsoft products."
Being a pedantic fanboi has it's perks, but not today.
 
snip from article "71 percent of customers are selecting Full diagnostics data to help us fix things and improve Microsoft products."

Microsoft should be touting that instead of 71% chose Full Diagnostics so that means 71% is happy with telemetry...the conclusion they reach is totally ridiculous
 
Every few days Windows 10 asks me if i want to delete my windows 7 duel boot os on a completely seperate hard drive Via Large popup window with only 2 buttons to click. If i just happen to accidentally hit delete one day i'll kill someone.

That one day is when they switch the buttons around.

They tricked 71% of users into installing this shit to begin with by fudging the ui. The other 29% are just masochists.
 
If you rely on MS patches for security, you're doing it wrong.

One thing I learned never to do was use my computer for mission critical things such as storing emails, paying bills, etc. Perhaps that came from using them since I was a teen back in the 1980s. There are other ways to do important things without using the sieve that is a typical desktop operating system. Good for general things like browsing TEH intarwebs, playing games, etc. But as you mentioned therein lies the problem: every OS has major flaws - some found and patched, some not discovered. Hackers are going to go after the most used in the market - I wonder how many hackers waste time looking for flaws in Win9x or iOS 5 now?
 
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Windows 7 Users Claim Microsoft is Happy Windows 10 Marketshare Will Be Stalled at 50% Forever
 
Bet you this guy uses an Android or iOS cellphone... He's fine with that of course but Microsoft, oh no they can't collect my data but I'll let Google and Apple do it.

The difference, as discussed many times before, is that Android doesn't do it at OS level, in fact AOSP is open source, you can inspect the code. Gapps is where the spying comes in, and it is possible to run Android without Gapps.

Spying at OS level is totally unacceptable, there is no excuse and anyone that claims "meh, I don't care" quite simply needs to dig their head out of the sand and wake up, hopefully before that data's used against them.

And to anyone claiming telemetry can be completely turned off, it can't. You can try to catch it with a Pi-hole, but I'm tipping MS will just keep changing DNS addresses.
 
I don't ever plan to do my taxes on a cell phone.
There is at least one entire continent that does things differently to you. Here in Africa we do things almost the opposite. Mobile phone penetration is incredibly high compared to computers. In South Africa alone, the majority of the tax returns are done on a cellphone - including mine.

Maybe you should. Gaming on Linux is awesome, try it out -> http://Ubuntu.com
I'm tempted to report your post as an outright lie... ;-)

Well I'm in my mid-40s...

The vast majority of what I still actually play day to day gaming-wise came out almost 20 years ago...

Never cared for Linux - just never saw the point in using it as a desktop OS replacement for MacOS or Windows.
I'm in my early thirties and I'm in a similar position. A lot of what I play can be run in DOSBox or SCUMMVM or is available on GOG.com, with the big exception of Battlefield 1.

Maybe the situation has now changed since I last tried Linux, but I've found that with Windows, everything "just works." There's no need to faff around with under the hood settings, no recompilation nonsense that takes an eternity to finish, one installs Windows and it just works.
 
Yeah I realized that after I went to bed yesterday I was like "Did I really write 1980 instead of 1984? Why the fuck would I do that?" :ROFLMAO:

Oh goooood.... I thought you meant we where heading for a place nobody dared to go..... 1984 makes more sense.

 
Maybe the situation has now changed since I last tried Linux, but I've found that with Windows, everything "just works." There's no need to faff around with under the hood settings, no recompilation nonsense that takes an eternity to finish, one installs Windows and it just works.

I went from TRS-80 > Commodore > MacOS (System 6 -> 9) > Windows (with a tiny bit of Linux, OSX, and some BeOS thrown in there along the way). Throw in Atari 2600 > Intellivision > NES > SNES (until I switched to computers for gaming - man, gaming with a Mac was akin to being a masochist - that was a primary motivation for building my first PC). I guess in a way I sort of followed the path of what "just works."

I suppose the way things are going eventually the consoles and iOS/Android will take over and actual PCs will become dinosaurs of the past.
 
Every machine I roll out for customers has all the available options switched off and a Local account.

Just doing my little bit.
 
I have intentionally broken my windows update to not go past TH2 (1511) as that was the last win10 version that allowed you to completely disable cortana and telemetry.
 
snip from article "71 percent of customers are selecting Full diagnostics data to help us fix things and improve Microsoft products."
Being a pedantic fanboi has it's perks, but not today.

Actual thread title:
Microsoft Claims 71% Of Windows 10 Users Are Happy With Telemetry

Does not say what you linked in article, reading is fundamental.
 
Actual thread title:
Microsoft Claims 71% Of Windows 10 Users Are Happy With Telemetry

Does not say what you linked in article, reading is fundamental.
FWIW, the "happy" commentary comes from the Register article, not from the blog.
 
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