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Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Build 14328 With Windows Ink, New UI (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Windows Ink is one of the many new features rolling out to beta testers as part of Windows 10 Build 14328. The build includes the new Windows Ink Workspace, providing access to new and improved sticky notes, a sketchpad, and a new screen sketch feature. There's also a new digital ruler you can use to create shapes and draw objects freely. The UI of the Start menu and Start Screen have also been tweaked. The most used apps list and all apps UI have been merged into a single view, creating a less cluttered Start menu. Microsoft also moved power, settings, and file explorer shortcuts so they're always visible. You can now bring back the fullscreen all apps list in the Start Screen, and you can toggle between the all apps view and your regular pinned apps. If you want things to feel less like a desktop PC, you can auto-hide the taskbar in tablet mode. Microsoft has detailed all of the new features found in Build 14328 in their blog post.
Is there an official option to turn off all Telemetry yet?
No. Windows 10 still phones home regularly, sending who-knows-what data about you and your documents to Microsoft. Because Microsoft refuses to discuss exactly what data is being transmitted, and because the packets going back to the mother ship are encrypted so we can't look at them for ourselves, the only safe assumption is that your private data, every keystroke you type, and the contents of your files are being vacuumed up to feed the NSA machine.
Microsoft could end the speculation very easily by offering an option to transmit telemetry data in the clear, so people could examine what's being sent. If it's truly innocuous statistics, like "User 1959028 ran NOTEPAD.EXE," they shouldn't have any problem doing that. If, instead, the packets are more like "User 1959028 ran NOTEPAD.EXE to open file c:\corporate_data\CocaColaRecipe.txt whose contents are..." then I can see why Microsoft wants the packets to stay encrypted. They don't want anyone knowing what's being collected and that's the part that's deeply troubling.
I've met quite a few Mensa members who were dumbasses too. Anyone who uses their Mensa card as proof of their being smart should be unqualified to be a Mensa member.
Just so I understand Microsoft has a full blown remote access trojan baked into their goddamn operating system enabled by default to exfiltrate whatever MS feels like from you without your permission or knowledge.
https://technet.microsoft.com/...
They force updates and collect data from you without any ability to opt out but hey at least you can now doodle all over your screens.
Thank god we are starting to see a real uptick in people bailing on MS. They deserve nothing less than bankruptcy.