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Windows Telemetry Rolls Out

Posted by samzenpus on from the here-it-comes dept.

ihtoit writes: Last week came the warning, now comes the roll out. One of the most most controversial aspects of Windows 10 is coming to Windows 7 and 8. Microsoft has released upgrades which enable the company to track what a user is doing. The updates – KB3075249, KB3080149 and KB3068708 – all add "customer experience and diagnostic telemetry" to the older versions. gHacks points out that the updates will ignore any previous user preferences reporting: "These four updates ignore existing user preferences stored in Windows 7 and Windows 8 (including any edits made to the Hosts file) and immediately starts exchanging user data with vortex-win.data.microsoft.com and settings-win.data.microsoft.com."

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  1. Oh, they're a big company, by jpellino · · Score: 5, Funny

    surely they know what they're doing and it's all for a better customer experience.

    --
    "Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
    1. Re:Oh, they're a big company, by MrL0G1C · · Score: 5, Funny

      Firstly, who the fuck is we? Is this like the royal We?

      Microsoft and the NSA ;-)

      --
      Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
    2. Re:Oh, they're a big company, by Evtim · · Score: 4, Funny

      There was an old joke from communist times.

      "Why do we need two layer toilet paper?"
      "One layer for you , the other for the KGB archive"

      After the changes

      "The toilet paper now has 3 layers!"
      "It's for your comfort and the extra copy for the NSA archive"