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Re: W7 vs W8.1 vs W10 - massive games performance test

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From: Dimensional Traveler
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:11
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On 8/15/2015 10:16 PM, Ross Ridge wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler  <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
>> I've seen one report that Win10 logs every keystroke and that, at least
>> so far, no one has been able to figure how to stop that or stop Win10
>> sending that log to Microsoft.
>
> That's obviously untrue.
>
> Almost all of the privacy complaints about Windows 10 are actually the
> result of people assuming that the data collection and relevant licence
> terms that applied to the pre-release versions of Windows 10 also applied
> to the release version of Windows 10.  Those prerelease versions reported
> a bunch of stuff back to Microsoft so they could verify it was working
> correctly and fix problems when it didn't.
>
> As near as I can tell the release version of Windows 10 doesn't report
> anything to Microsoft that the older versions of Windows do.
>
> 					Ross Ridge
>
Links to a couple of articles on this.

http://localghost.org/posts/a-traffic-analysis-of-windows-10

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/


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