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Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 (theintercept.com)
An anonymous reader writes with this bit of news from the Intercept. If you login to Windows 10 using your Microsoft account, your computer automatically uploads a copy of your recovery key to a Microsoft servers. From the article: "The fact that new Windows devices require users to backup their recovery key on Microsoft's servers is remarkably similar to a key escrow system, but with an important difference. Users can choose to delete recovery keys from their Microsoft accounts – something that people never had the option to do with the Clipper chip system. But they can only delete it after they've already uploaded it to the cloud.....As soon as your recovery key leaves your computer, you have no way of knowing its fate. A hacker could have already hacked your Microsoft account and can make a copy of your recovery key before you have time to delete it. Or Microsoft itself could get hacked, or could have hired a rogue employee with access to user data. Or a law enforcement or spy agency could send Microsoft a request for all data in your account, which would legally compel them to hand over your recovery key, which they could do even if the first thing you do after setting up your computer is delete it. As Matthew Green, professor of cryptography at Johns Hopkins University puts it, 'Your computer is now only as secure as that database of keys held by Microsoft, which means it may be vulnerable to hackers, foreign governments, and people who can extort Microsoft employees.'"
that is a totally out of context comment from an anonymous poster.
large corporate entities will not deploy windows 10 for years anyway due to incompatible or uncertified line of business software platforms. it has nothing to do with this particular feature.
moreover, this has to do with logging into your microsoft.com account, nothing to do with windows 10 pro joined to a domain.
It's certainly possible that you're right, but equally if the GP poster really does have insider knowledge and really does want to speak without betraying a confidence then surely they really would post anonymously.
In any case, I can tell you the answer to your follow-up questions for at least some small to medium-sized companies I work with: Windows 10's biggest competition is probably Windows 7, which is what the majority of these organisations are already running as their standard desktop.
The difficulty Microsoft has with these customers is that Windows 10 doesn't have a lot of big selling points. I watched and listened to some of the early promotional material, and the loudest message I heard was "it's not Windows 8". Obviously to business customers who standardised on Windows 7 anyway, that's not exactly a good reason to undertake an inevitably expensive and disruptive migration to a new OS.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.