I agree that this is a horrible idea and so is real name policies too. The real solution is to actually fix the problems with using real names. A recent example is this fiasco:
Even though it existed at this time, even SSL Labs did not bother with TLS 1.1/1.2 in the early days! SSL Labs also choked on anything stronger than 1024-bit DHE due to the use of JSSE. Of course both of these problems has been long fixed.
Server 2012 R2 Essentials isn't that expensive though, and provides you with a AD domain complete with group policy etc. It even provides WSUS to control updates.
Nor will the forced updates either. I checked Server 2012 R2 Essentials and it can join a workgroup and be used as a workstation, though it can't be joined to a domain as anything other than a domain controller holding FSMO roles. Hopefully Server 2016 will be the same.
Win10's privacy policy may be a bit vague but it didn't explicitly state that they would be selling browser history or other sensitive data like AVG does.
But OP also mentioned switching to Fastmail too. SQM is not new and I know about the forced telemetry on non-enterprise editions, but I do feel bad about in particular the hosts file bypass BTW if it is actually true.
NeXTstep is not a fork of Mac OS. In retrospect I have been thinking that Blue Box on NuKernel might have been a good starting point, the idea being that the Mac OS code and apps will eventually be ported to run outside the Blue Box in separate processes.
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And it is not a keylogger either. Rather it sends "typing data" to MS. There is an option to turn it off.
I think that can be turned off.
Can you ask why you need 100%?
I agree that this is a horrible idea and so is real name policies too. The real solution is to actually fix the problems with using real names. A recent example is this fiasco:
http://ryanspahn.com/my-google...
https://news.ycombinator.com/t... (the first comments are not hard to find)
I wonder why this pricing model was created in the first place.
Even though it existed at this time, even SSL Labs did not bother with TLS 1.1/1.2 in the early days! SSL Labs also choked on anything stronger than 1024-bit DHE due to the use of JSSE. Of course both of these problems has been long fixed.
Server 2012 R2 Essentials isn't that expensive though, and provides you with a AD domain complete with group policy etc. It even provides WSUS to control updates.
Nor will the forced updates either. I checked Server 2012 R2 Essentials and it can join a workgroup and be used as a workstation, though it can't be joined to a domain as anything other than a domain controller holding FSMO roles. Hopefully Server 2016 will be the same.
Not as far as I know, fortunately.
At least they do describe the telemetry levels very well now:
https://technet.microsoft.com/...
https://technet.microsoft.com/...
Just about the only thing I vaguely liked was Cortana, which was kinda fun for 10 minutes but I don't care about in day-to-day computing.
And it is Cortana that sends your voice to MS's servers obviously.
Why not just an option to opt out?
I think this was the start menu update originally planned for Win8.1 in the first place.
It is not that privacy is dead. It is more like that a lot of the privacy concerns are overblown.
MarkMonitor only registers the domain, and it is not uncommon either.
MultiFinder had a workaround for Excel 1.x where it had to be loaded below the 1MB line.
Given to anti-piracy groups?
Win10's privacy policy may be a bit vague but it didn't explicitly state that they would be selling browser history or other sensitive data like AVG does.
It is not that simple I think.
But OP also mentioned switching to Fastmail too. SQM is not new and I know about the forced telemetry on non-enterprise editions, but I do feel bad about in particular the hosts file bypass BTW if it is actually true.
Why do you dislike it so much?
I don't believe that it is collecting the actual text.
NeXTstep is not a fork of Mac OS. In retrospect I have been thinking that Blue Box on NuKernel might have been a good starting point, the idea being that the Mac OS code and apps will eventually be ported to run outside the Blue Box in separate processes.
Not this I think.