You can't turn off Cortana in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update

To me it's not a tin foil hat issue; it's fact as far as I'm concerned.

Between Bing, Cortana and Key logging Microsoft's W-10 gathers more information about what you type, see and or talk about than most people even know. Then stores that information in a cloud somewhere in the world.

Now if one doesn't care that this is being done to them their isn't a problem.
I have a problem with such things and try to avoid these methods as much as I can.

When government agencies around the world do such things the screaming and hollering has the internet very busy with people complaining. When someone complains about Microsoft doing such things they must be wearing a tin foil hat.
Go figure.

Most people that have gotten W-10 have no idea all this information gathering is being done by W-10.

Jack

More bonuses for w10 pro users: no longer able to disable microsoft consumer experience or the ability to disable all apps from the windows store and more!!! The w10 user is the product. One fine example of w10 at work.

Microsoft removes policies from Windows 10 Pro

Well that sucks.
This just gets worse and worse :)

Layback Bear said:

When government agencies around the world do such things the screaming and hollering has the internet very busy with people complaining. When someone complains about Microsoft doing such things they must be wearing a tin foil hat.
Go figure.

This is one of the things that confuses me about people in the US.

If the Government does something dodgy, it's Armageddon.
If a Corporation does exactly the same thing, it's a "Free Market" triumph.

xips said:

More bonuses for w10 pro users: no longer able to disable microsoft consumer experience or the ability to disable all apps from the windows store and more!!! The w10 user is the product. One fine example of w10 at work.

Microsoft removes policies from Windows 10 Pro

Perhaps the EU (who are desperate for cash, just like every other government) will fine MS into oblivion and/or force MS to release a proper OS.

Pretty wild
I don't see logging into 10 anytime soon until the smoke clears on all of the changes and have been confirmed.
Which is actually pretty easy to not do :)
Might have to reevaluate what win-10 is installed on see it's going into the freezer until further notice
Possibly it's good just as a system image on a hard drive
500gb ssd I believe I might find other uses for it.

Yep switching to enterprise is a joke :)

Don't miss out on win-10 free upgrade banners are gone