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Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book

Embrace, extend, and extinguish "... a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors."

Microsoft no longer sells a usable operating system. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Windows 10 shows you ads while you are trying to work. But, at least at present, you may be able to stop at least some of the advertising: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you, and how to stop them.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Windows 10 shows you ads while you are trying to work. But, at least at present, you may be able to stop at lease some of the advertising: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you, and how to stop them.

First, back when the Internet Protocol was created, there weren't 4 billion people on Earth let alone 4 billion devices that needed to be connected to a network.

It was pretty close. World population was estimated to cross 4 billion in April 1974, while the paper describing IP was published in May 1974. Vint Cerf has apologized for choosing 32 bits, saying "The problem is the experiment never ended".

From the parent comment: "Windows 10 is a true nightmare OS, ..."

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Windows 10 shows you ads while you are trying to work. But, at least at present, you may be able to stop the advertising: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you, and how to stop them.

Those who arrange Linux have apparently never heard of cooperation. (What did you say? Co-what??? Is that an English word?)

This story about Linux makes me laugh: The number of Linux distributions is declining. AMAZING QUOTE from that story of 2 years ago: "In 2011, the Distrowatch database of active Linux distributions peaked at 323. Currently, however, it lists only 285."

285 different ways to do one thing!!! "Only" 285? Quote from the parent comment: "You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem."

Linux has VERY poor documentation. A friend of mine said this perhaps 20 years ago: "It's free but you will spend at least a week getting it to work." So, Linux is NOT free. It is VERY expensive!!! VERY! If you are a teenager and like tinkering, and have nothing else to do besides play video games, the cost may be acceptable. Or maybe you are installing Linux on 50 computers. Otherwise probably not.

Windows is "spyware" and the documentation is often poor. But at least there is only 1 current version. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. It's an OS that shows you ads while you are trying to work. But, at least at present, you can stop the advertising: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you, and how to stop them.

Could you go to prison for recommending Windows, a "spyware" OS? Oh well, there's that. You need a signed contract that the customer understands that Microsoft has control at all times. Or, you can deliver the "Enterprise" version, which Microsoft doesn't allow most customers to have; maybe that isn't spyware. Or, maybe it is: For real Windows 10 privacy, you need the China Government Edition.

But at least, with Windows, you won't be involved with the ENORMOUS complexity of Linux. One example: The Debian Family Tree. That's just one of the "family trees"! If you have a son, tell him not to make 200 women pregnant.

Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Linux said: "many members of the free software community are just deeply anti-social types".

That comment by Shuttleworth on Google Plus is an example of Google being insufficiently managed. It apparently isn't possible to link directly to Mark Shuttleworth's comment. It's necessary to click on "View 173 previous comments" and search for "muppets". (Wow! Google Plus is an example of people liking to use a huge amount of Javascript. Why so much Javascript? Are they teaching themselves about Javascript?)

A long time ago, at a convention, I got into a long discussion with Mark Shuttleworth. I gave him a manual I had written about dealing with the social issues of technology. The only result? Shuttleworth criticized me for giving him a paper copy. He was flying home after the convention; I

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

After Windows 10 turned out to be one OS-sized piece of spyware, why would any sane person use it for anything?

Time to kick that shit to the curb.

Anyways Linux and BSD both have much better SSH support, without the malware coming bundled with win10.

From the story summary: "... the culprit is LinkedIn."

From the parent comment: "LinkedIn is a socially malignant business..."

LinkedIn is no longer LinkedIn. It is now Microsoft: "LinkedIn notifications directly within Windows 10".

Windows 10 is now gathering information for LinkedIn. The worst spyware ever made has become worse!

Intel destroying itself?

Microsoft's history is filled with abuse. Important 3rd comment: Possibly some other person from India...

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

The above comment says these things about Windows 10, which was forced on many unsuspecting users:
"It's still a security nightmare."
"It now drives advertising at me via the start menu."
"It's unstable..."

Don't you hate it when someone says overly positive things about Windows 10? Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

To Microsoft employees giving positive comments: Get another job! Get a job with a company you can respect!

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made

Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC.

Maybe they should make a movie, "Why Intel went bankrupt."

How can you deliver Intel (and AMD) computers to customers knowing that there is secret control by unknown agencies? Do you tell the customers? If you don't tell the customers, can you be taken to court and sued for damages?

Does anyone think that secret government agencies are well-managed? No one at a secret agency would ever steal?

Could the problem be solved by isolating Intel computers from the Internet, providing internet access from other computers, and providing some secure method of data transfer?

This Ask Slashdot story didn't get sufficient attention, in my opinion: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer?

The problem of hidden access is not just with Intel and AMD. Microsoft does it: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC.

Protect vs. SYN Attacks

FROM -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...

SYN Attack Protection

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The named value to enable SYN attack protection is located beneath the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters.

Value name: SynAttackProtect

Recommended value: 2

Valid values: 0 1 2

Description: Causes TCP to adjust retransmission of SYN-ACKS. When you configure this value the connection responses timeout more quickly in the event of a SYN attack. A SYN attack is triggered when the values of TcpMaxHalfOpen or TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried are exceeded.

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SYN Protection Thresholds

The following values determine the thresholds for which SYN protection is triggered. All of the keys & values in this section are under the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters

Value name: TcpMaxPortsExhausted

Recommended value: 5

Valid values: 0-65535

Description: Specifies the threshold of TCP connection requests that must be exceeded before SYN flood protection is triggered.

Value name: TcpMaxHalfOpen

Recommended value data: 500

Valid values: 100-65535

Description: When SynAttackProtect is enabled this value specifies the threshold of TCP connections in the SYN_RCVD state. When SynAttackProtect is exceeded SYN flood protection is triggered.

Value name: TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried

Recommended value data: 400

Valid values: 80-65535

Description: When SynAttackProtect is enabled this value specifies the threshold of TCP connections in the SYN_RCVD state for which at least one retransmission has been sent. When SynAttackProtect is exceeded SYN flood protection is triggered.

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More Protections

All keys & values in this section are located under the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters

Value: TcpMaxConnectResponseRetransmissions

Recommended value data: 2

Valid values: 0-255

Description: Controls how many times a SYN-ACK is retransmitted before canceling the attempt when responding to a SYN request.

Value name: TcpMaxDataRetransmissions

Recommended value data: 2

Valid values: 0-65535

Description: Specifies the number of times that TCP retransmits an individual data segment (not connection request segments) before aborting the connection.

Value name: EnablePMTUDiscovery

Recommended value data: 0

Valid values: 0 1

Description: Setting this value to 1 (default) forces TCP to discover the maximum transmission unit or largest packet size over the path to a remote host. An attacker can force packet fragmentation which overworks the stack.

Specifying 0 forces the MTU of 576 bytes for connections from hosts not on the local subnet.

Value name: KeepAliveTime

Recommended value data: 300000

Valid values: 80-4294967295

Description: Specifies how often TCP attempts to verify that an idle connection is still intact by sending a keep-alive packet.

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"Null-routing" (A network w/ multiple IP addresses ala multi-homed servers ahead of production ones must be done "upstream" of them):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

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Microsoft &/or Amazon setups alerts them to DoS/DDoS & can start "shutting down" IP address sources of packets for DDoS easily - it's the reason "Anonymous" can't "take them down" (& they've tried).

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Microsoft: We're not vulnerable to DDoS attacks

http://www.networkworld.com/co...

PERTINENT QUOTE:

It seems to me that Google is becoming more and more abusive.

When I go to web pages, often the NoScript and Ghostery add-ons list one or more Google processes. Google is following web site visitors everywhere.

Google allows cell phone providers to prevent updates to its Android operating system. That forces people who need security to buy new cell phones.

In general, it seems to me that hardware and software providers are becoming more and more authoritarian. They take advantage of the fact that most people don't know much about technology.

In my opinion, Microsoft's Windows 10 is NOT USABLE! How can you deliver a computer to a customer when you know what you are delivering is spyware? One article: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote from that story: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." A previous comment about Microsoft: Window 10 Spyware.

Technology companies are not only abusive in their design of products, they are abusive in other ways, also:

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book.

Apple: Cupertino Mayor Says Apple 'Abuses Us'

Apple again: Criticism of Apple Inc.

Adobe Systems: Adobe Flash, The Spy in Your Computer -- Part 1 Adobe seems to me to be one of the original abusers. The company demonstrated to others that average people don't know how to protect themselves from technology abuse.

Adobe Systems rents software: Software as a Monthly Rental

Indeed. Everyone knows the Mac's OS switched from a proprietary one to FreeBSD back in 2007 when they also switched from the Motorola 6800 to Intel. Or, at least, that's what NetworkWorld reported last week and has yet to redact or correct...

You don't suppose the Anonymous Coward that started this thread is the author of that article, do you?

Encryption weenies place a lot more faith in it's power than I do. So, are we supposed to trust SSL? I don't. Besides being eat-up with a laundry list of past vulnerabilities, I'm supposed to trust some megacorp that says some other megacorp or boiler-room-scam operation capable of issuing a certificate signing request is trustworthy? Why again? Just because they can pay folks to answer the phone or to supposedly check someone's business license? That doesn't mean *squat*. There are so many instances where that system has broken down due to technical and logistical reasons, it's not even funny.

You ever notice how everyone gets all concerned about algorithms being broken but it's usually the implementation that the hackers go after and break? What difference does it make if you have a steel vault door if it's mounted on a balsa wood frame? So, because of that fact, how is anyone supposed to trust anything that's "encrypted" ? You can't trust the OS to not be keylogging you, the feds or the author not to have backdoored the implementation, nor can you trust that someone won't simply beat the password out of user (ie.. rubber hose decryption method). If you ask me, the promise of encryption is a lie. It's marginally useful to obfuscate sensitive details in transit or for hashing. The idea that it can always be trusted and is some kind of panacea against hacking is laughable and been proven idiotic over and over, especially when pronounced upon high by evil megacorporations who have ZERO credibility anymore.

More licensing!! The new license will say, on the 455th page of fine print, in complicated legal language, that Microsoft executives can go into your refrigerator any time they want, and eat your ice cream.

Why do they want to do that? They like the feeling of dominance.

There has been progress in dominance in other areas:

Spyware:
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made
Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

Malware:
Microsoft is using 'malware tactics' to trick people into upgrading to Windows 10

Microsoft's history is filled with abuse:

One fact about Microsoft under Satya Nadella gives a useful overall view. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." Nadella has been CEO of Microsoft since 2014.

The management of Microsoft by Satya Nadella seems, to me and many others, UTTERLY incompetent: CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates.

Possibly Satya Nadella was chosen as CEO of Microsoft partly because he was the least socially annoying manager.

Microsoft has a long history of being abusive to everyone, not just customers. Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book.

Ballmer was worse?

Satya Nadella is apparently not as destructive as Steve Ballmer. Ballmer was rated the worst CEO in the United States.

Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)

Bill Gates still manages Microsoft:

See the Jan. 27, 2017 Charlie Rose TV interview, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Quoting from the transcript:

08:40 Charlie Rose: How much time do you spend at Microsoft?

08:42 Bill Gates: I'm there about 15 percent of the time. And I get to work just on the R and D part.

Part of "R and D" at Microsoft is Windows 10 putting ads on screens while people are in their offices trying to work. The Microsoft managers who participated in that are amazingly lacking in social ability, in my opinion.

Microsoft's primary location, Seattle, is a miserable place:

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

Google is also badly managed.

To me, the management of Google seems less and less competent. Wikipedia says Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google was given that position in October 24, 2015. The reorganization of Google into Alphabet was completed on October 2,

The parent commenter apparently meant to say, starting at the title: "Thanks to the Spyware and tactics... Microsoft used in Windows 8/10, I do not trust ANYTHING they say."

Others agree. Here is a Network World article: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote from that story: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

If Microsoft had paid ad agencies a billion dollars to convince the public that Microsoft cannot be trusted, the ads would not have been as effective as the abuse of including spyware. My opinion, shared by many others.

"ReactOS is superior to the latest version of Windows because it doesn't come with spyware, malware, adware or crippleware."

In my opinion, Windows 10 is NOT USABLE! Can you deliver a computer to a customer when you know what you are delivering is spyware?

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote from that story: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

To me it seems very likely that some low-level employee at Microsoft, or at one of the secret agencies that Microsoft supports, or a contractor, will steal information from companies that allow Windows 10 computers to have an internet connection.

Companies that supply computer systems to businesses could be the target of legal action if information is stolen, it seems to me.

ReactOS needs world-wide support and much faster development. Every country and the U.N. should support ReactOS so that the Windows OS can be eliminated.

Paying for top-level development of ReactOS would save governments money. A fully compatible ReactOS would also save citizens HUGE amounts of money.

No one should think that secret government agencies are always well-managed, or that their actions are always in the interest of all citizens.

We live in a world in which top-level managers have been introduced to computers in their 30s or 40s, when the managers were always busy. At present, most top-level managers are not fully computer literate. Many are very ignorant. Many managers are not prepared to understand the technical issues they face every day.

BGP routing has no authority mechanism. Anyone can publish any route. This is not the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made

Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

FROM -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...

SYN Attack Protection

---

The named value to enable SYN attack protection is located beneath the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters.

Value name: SynAttackProtect

Recommended value: 2

Valid values: 0 1 2

Description: Causes TCP to adjust retransmission of SYN-ACKS. When you configure this value the connection responses timeout more quickly in the event of a SYN attack. A SYN attack is triggered when the values of TcpMaxHalfOpen or TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried are exceeded.

---

SYN Protection Thresholds

The following values determine the thresholds for which SYN protection is triggered. All of the keys & values in this section are under the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters

Value name: TcpMaxPortsExhausted

Recommended value: 5

Valid values: 0-65535

Description: Specifies the threshold of TCP connection requests that must be exceeded before SYN flood protection is triggered.

Value name: TcpMaxHalfOpen

Recommended value data: 500

Valid values: 100-65535

Description: When SynAttackProtect is enabled this value specifies the threshold of TCP connections in the SYN_RCVD state. When SynAttackProtect is exceeded SYN flood protection is triggered.

Value name: TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried

Recommended value data: 400

Valid values: 80-65535

Description: When SynAttackProtect is enabled this value specifies the threshold of TCP connections in the SYN_RCVD state for which at least one retransmission has been sent. When SynAttackProtect is exceeded SYN flood protection is triggered.

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More Protections

All keys & values in this section are located under the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters

Value: TcpMaxConnectResponseRetransmissions

Recommended value data: 2

Valid values: 0-255

Description: Controls how many times a SYN-ACK is retransmitted before canceling the attempt when responding to a SYN request.

Value name: TcpMaxDataRetransmissions

Recommended value data: 2

Valid values: 0-65535

Description: Specifies the number of times that TCP retransmits an individual data segment (not connection request segments) before aborting the connection.

Value name: EnablePMTUDiscovery

Recommended value data: 0

Valid values: 0 1

Description: Setting this value to 1 (default) forces TCP to discover the maximum transmission unit or largest packet size over the path to a remote host. An attacker can force packet fragmentation which overworks the stack.

Specifying 0 forces the MTU of 576 bytes for connections from hosts not on the local subnet.

Value name: KeepAliveTime

Recommended value data: 300000

Valid values: 80-4294967295

Description: Specifies how often TCP attempts to verify that an idle connection is still intact by sending a keep-alive packet.

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"Null-routing" (A network w/ multiple IP addresses ala multi-homed servers ahead of production ones must be done "upstream" of them):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

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Microsoft &/or Amazon setups alerts them to DoS/DDoS & can start "shutting down" IP address sources of packets for DDoS easily - it's the reason "Anonymous" can't "take them down" (& they've tried).

---

Microsoft: We're not vulnerable to DDoS attacks

http://www.networkworld.com/co...

PERTINENT QUOTE:

"At Microsoft we have robust m

1) Abuse, pretending to be friendly --- In the area of Microsoft's Linux abuse, you are here.

2) Sneaky abuse, not widely reported because technology people make more money protecting against it.

3) EXTREME ABUSE!

One example of Microsoft's ABUSE step 3: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

When you calculate the Azure Cloud Service cost of losing control, you will be connected to 13 web sites, not just one.

Will the new Azure Cloud Service make sure that secret U.S. government agencies have a copy of everything?

Microsoft Cloud? 1) Micro, small thinking. 2) Soft, sloppy thinking. 3) Cloud, clouded thinking.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Is the US raiding homes because of speech? News to me, got a source?

Are you joking? SWAT teams are so happy to raid a place all they need is a nudge. Doesn't even matter if there's any evidence of anything, ring 'em up and send 'em round. Also ask the people who have onion routers or other perfectly legal thing the autorities don't like

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting

http://www.networkworld.com/ar...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/seatt...

Or for a non-inflammatory title: Microsoft Disables Faulty AV Software so Win10 Uses Can Safely Update To Latest OS

Or, how about: Microsoft Half-Asses at Protecting Its Customers for "Rich Security Ecosystem" Or Microsoft Can't Be Bothered to Maintain Backwards Compatibility? Or Microsoft Windows is Such a Shit OS, Microsoft Guarantees Some Sort of AV, Even If Their Own, Will Always Be Running? Perhaps if Windows wasn't still such swiss cheese. Or perhaps if they actually did a better job at making sure AV Software (or any software, really) wasn't so readily entwined that low level changes would break things? Or perhaps they could making those low level changes by having taken the 64-bit shift as the chance to really fix things instead of, again, half-assing it?

Seriously, feel free to spin it however you like. I'd be fine if Windows 10 blocked all AV other than Defender and worked really hard to make Defender 99% moot by, you know, focusing on actually eliminating the means of infection. Most people are getting shit precisely because of malware attacking Windows vulnerabilities and an ecosystem that's based heavily on "just download this .exe from the internet". Actual focus on security, instead of firing your QAs. Create a walled garden store not to get a cut of every sale but to provide a safe place for people to get software. You know, do the shit that costs money and makes a better OS without likely any real, direct monetary reward.

I always remember the CTO of Motorola, and her condescending dismissal, of the iPhone after it was announced: http://www.networkworld.com/ar...

It should be interesting, if nothing else, since the new Overlord is an ATT competitor, and Verizon has been recently in the news shuttering up their own email activities.

Home users overwhelmingly sitting behind their router NATs and firewalls have no exposed SMB port access for worm to propagate over

... although .. after we've all finally moved onto IPv6 networking, and all our home systems (not just well-run geek systems but also all Joe Public's PCs running Windows 17) are sitting on publically routable real addresses and *not* behind NATs, the situation won't be as comfortable any more.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2228449/microsoft-subnet/ipv6-addressing--subnets--private-addresses.html:

the whole concept of IPv6 is to be able to have IPv6 devices globally routable so that in the future, you want to have your IPv6 systems talk to other IPv6 systems directly without having to translate addresses

So no NAT any more, and we have to hope that everybody's ISP-supplied "router" will contain an adequate firewall as a perimeter defence. People with home networks of Mom, Dad, Granny, Billy & Sue's PCs will be depending on their individual PCs' host firewalls having the SMB ports open in order to "share" their, er, "family vacation photos", or whatever the hell it is they share.

Exactly. Having a firewall component on the ISP router will take the place of the basic security that NAT provides (i.e. deny inbound sessions by default). Yes, Windows Firewall does have some protections. The problem with it is that if you open up file sharing internally between other home PCs and devices, it would also open it up to internet traffic.

Home users overwhelmingly sitting behind their router NATs and firewalls have no exposed SMB port access for worm to propagate over

... although .. after we've all finally moved onto IPv6 networking, and all our home systems (not just well-run geek systems but also all Joe Public's PCs running Windows 17) are sitting on publically routable real addresses and *not* behind NATs, the situation won't be as comfortable any more.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2228449/microsoft-subnet/ipv6-addressing--subnets--private-addresses.html:

the whole concept of IPv6 is to be able to have IPv6 devices globally routable so that in the future, you want to have your IPv6 systems talk to other IPv6 systems directly without having to translate addresses

So no NAT any more, and we have to hope that everybody's ISP-supplied "router" will contain an adequate firewall as a perimeter defence. People with home networks of Mom, Dad, Granny, Billy & Sue's PCs will be depending on their individual PCs' host firewalls having the SMB ports open in order to "share" their, er, "family vacation photos", or whatever the hell it is they share.

Or, you could hack the registry to make them self-identify as embedded and get security updates from Microsoft until 2019.

Registry hack enables free Windows XP security updates until 2019

I would never use Windows 10 except connected to a separate router, and only for testing, so I didn't think about that.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

SOON: The Windows OS will be rented, not sold, apparently. That would be one more abuse, of many.

This is being accepted: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

So, I'm guessing Microsoft managers think, "That worked. We will try another abuse."

One thing I've learned over the years is that Slashdot commenters are generally not good at reacting to abuse. Slashdot commenters make excuses, or react to abuse weakly. Also, for many Slashdot commenters there is a conflict of interest: They make more money if Windows is more difficult to administer and use.

Slowly increasing the number and severity of abuses causes many people to make multiple excuses, effectively accepting Microsoft's abusiveness.

However, Microsoft managers seem to lack social ability. The abusiveness of many of the features of Windows 10 are like a multi-billion-dollar advertising campaign that very effectively says, "Dislike Microsoft products". One of the many examples: Trying to imitate Google and sell "Apps", but to business users that don't want employees distracted.

One possible solution: All countries could support ReactOS so that the Windows OS can be eliminated.

No company should be allowed to have a virtual monopoly! Companies that are routinely abusive should be re-organized or eliminated.

Quote from the parent comment: "I've been using a combination of Google Apps and LibreOffice for years, never looked back and don't miss MS at all. Several of the businesses I consult for have switched entirely to Google Apps..."

Several years ago, I spent several hours writing something in Microsoft Word. Later I discovered that Microsoft Word was not able to open its own file! Luckily, I could open the file in Libre Office.

The parent comment is correct. Let's find other methods of doing our work. Don't rely on a habitual abuser.

Let's have a multi-national effort to improve Libre Office, especially the somewhat sloppy and limited user interface.

Why should all the countries in the world pay the Microsoft tax? The United States was founded because of refusing to pay an abusive tax.

Both have equal track record of screwing things up.

What!! Ha! That's deeply offensive to Microsoft! Microsoft is professional at delivering evil. Random dudes are not nearly as good. What random dude could do this: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

"Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

"This indicates that they don't really have a clue..." ["They" are Microsoft top managers.]

That's the underlying problem. Apparently Microsoft top managers are socially and mentally extremely limited.

If you were a top manager of a software development company, would you do things that caused stories like this article to be written? Network World, Aug. 4, 2015: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote from that story: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

The abusiveness of many of the features of Windows 10 are like a multi-billion-dollar advertising campaign that very effectively says, "Dislike Microsoft products".

The answer? Replace ALL the Microsoft top managers, in my opinion. Does anyone else have an idea that would fix the problems at Microsoft?

Another solution: All countries and the U.S. could support ReactOS so that the Windows OS can be eliminated. No company should be allowed to have a virtual monopoly!

Companies that are routinely abusive should be re-organized or eliminated.

Details as to exactly what "Microsoft Edition" means are scarce.

I suppose Microsoft now wants to compete with Google's Android abuse. Take further advantage of the customer's lack of technical knowledge and lack of time to investigate? Try to make Android as abusive as Windows 10?

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

"Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

@Sycraft-fu: "It is a story not so much because this can be done, but because there is a solution to it and has been for 3 years, AV vendors just aren't implementing it. There's additional hardening they could take to mitigate this, they just aren't."

Do you have a link to this three year old solution for the Double Agent zero-day attack, that the vendors aren't implementing, that the vendors are still working on a solution to?

"Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

Some people don't believe Satan exists. For them, maybe this:

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, says Microsoft should continue selling vulnerabilities to secret agencies of the U.S. government. Unfortunately for the overworked Microsoft employees, the Chinese government wants different vulnerabilities.

But how do you do this on a phone?

By installing an app that extends android.net.VpnService . Or by tethering your GNU/Linux laptop.

SSH only tunnels TCP, DNS is UDP.

DNS can run over TCP. In fact, many DNSSEC responses are so big that they have to (source).

I agree. Incredible!

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. From that article: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

My opinion: There should be far stronger protests, including legal action and laws against that kind of abuse.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

Maybe something good was added to Windows 10. I'll never explore enough to know, because I don't have customers who will allow ads and spying.

That is true

It's not, actually. It's in the main article (not the 2015 rules) about a third of the way down. If AmiMoJo tells you the sky is blue, look up and check.

It's false equivalence, even if a woman said it. That probably makes me a racist.

Oh really? Number of open jobs requiring Computer Science degrees: 500,000. Number of yearly CS graduates: 50,000. That's a factor of 10:1 in one industry.

A degree doesn't expire every year, you know. There are people who got a degree over the last few years still looking for jobs. There are people who have been "aged out" still looking. All your number says is that we can't cover the current set of openings with just new graduates from this single year.

You have data for "cheaper" but if worker A works 40 hours for $140k and worker B works 80 hours a week for $140k, worker B is making a significantly lower than average hourly wage.

All of which is hypothetical based only on your ideas. I assert this is not reality.

You also didn't address the issue where there are Americans lined up with similar credentials to do the same job yet the jobs go to the H-1B visa.

Please post some numbers and source for your assertion. Again your perception not reality.

The H-1B visa program was enacted in 1990 due to a tech worker shortage that no longer exists (and may have never existed). It should be repealed. When the current H-1B visas expire in 3 years or less, hire Americans.

Oh really? Number of open jobs requiring Computer Science degrees: 500,000. Number of yearly CS graduates: 50,000. That's a factor of 10:1 in one industry. There is debate about whether a shortage exists; however, unless you work inside Apple you can't say for sure they are abusing the H1B program. I doubt they are as the trouble and cost to sponsoring H1B and green cards is more than it might be worth. A company like Infosys might be more of an abuser of the program as their business model relies on H1B labor.

I hear you're moving on to work at Tesla as VP of Autopilot Software. Congratulations!

What three things excite you the most about Tesla?

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Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

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