The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue'

snydeq writes "Changes in Microsoft's forthcoming upgrade to Windows 8 reveal the dark underbelly of Microsoft's evolving agenda, one that finds pieces of Windows 8 inexplicably disappearing and a new feature that allows Microsoft to track your local searches cropping up, InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard reports. 'As Windows 8.1 Milestone Preview testers push and prod their way into the dark corners of Windows 8.1 "Blue," they're finding a bunch of things that go bump in the night. From new and likely unwelcome features, to nudges into the Microsoft data tracking sphere, to entire lopped-off pieces of Windows 8, it looks like Microsoft is changing Windows to further its own agenda.'" A lot of the stuff the article gripes about are what Google has been doing for ages with Android: requiring a Microsoft account, funneling users to their services first, tracking your system usage, etc.

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There is a difference

[kurt555gs]

Google = Do No Harm.
Microsoft = Do Harm.

Re:Expect more of this.

[dbIII]

I use win7 for gaming but it sucks for that purpose. It seems every time I really get into a game the whole thing vanishes into an icon and some shit comes up telling me the computer needs to reboot, and do I want it to remind me again in some selectable number of sixty minutes or less. Then there's watching movies on a TV connected to the thing - the warning about rebooting perhaps comes up on the PC screen but all you know about it from the TV is the thing suddenly goes black and reboots in the middle of an important scene. Don't get me started on multi-screens, the third party Matrox stuff on Win2k was vastly better than the built in stuff in recent MS Windows, and that's without comparing it to another OS. When the stuff you need to get to is attempting to be displayed on a screen that is not connected it's very clear that very little work went into mult-screen support.