New
#11
Every time I walk away from my computer and come back, I am afraid that there is a new system pop up message asking me to upgrade to windows 10 and promising a Utopian computing environment afterwards. I can't help but be suspicious on why a for profit publicly traded company wants to give away their product with leading market share for free in a worth way.
That's not fair to Apple and for a certain extent to Google...Now my objection is to how they are doing it and yes I know other companies such as Apple and Google are or have been doing things that I find distasteful for some time now, and I am not one for caving in without speaking my mind.
Yes, Apple also would like to collect diagnostic and usage data data, like MS. The difference is that Apple provides a simple interface to disable it; capture from my MacBook Pro:
The other five privacy settings above "Diagnostics & Usage" control applications access to the system and your data.
I used to believe that Google poses a high risk to privacy and to a certain extent security as well. MS didn't eclipse Google in that sense, MS leapfrogged Google. All of the things that Google had been doing, MS moved them to the W10 and to a certain extent to W7 and 8.x.
The Chrome OS from Google might do the same as W10, I've never used it. In which case, it isn't MS that pioneering OS based monitoring and recording end users' activities...