There's a mud-slinging contest underway in the tech press again, and it's all about Microsoft's data gathering -- again.
In particular, Yusuf Mehdi's
Windows Experience post, announcing that 200 million machines had used Win10 in the preceding month, includes details about Win10 usage -- 44.5 billion minutes spent in Microsoft Edge, 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana, more Bing searches per device, 82 billion photos viewed in the built-in Photo app -- that make some folks wonder how much of their own activity is now in Microsoft's databases.
Predictably,
Mark Wilson at Betanews jumped in with a question about privacy, which he sent to Microsoft, receiving the usual "no comment" reply:
Microsoft's spying is intrusive enough to reveal how long you have been using Windows 10, but the company is not willing to be open about the collection of this data.
Predictably,
Gordon Kelly at Forbes let loose with a tirade:
Microsoft admitted it not only logs its users time on Windows 10 but also their time using Microsoft Edge ... and gaming ... and streaming games ... and counting your search queries ... and every single time a user opens a photo.
