The EFF calls out Microsoft for disregarding user choice and privacy in Windows 10

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Despite the offer for a free upgrade to Windows 10 ending almost three weeks ago, the animosity against Microsoft's operating system rages on. This time, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called out the company for its aggressive upgrade tactics and privacy concerns.

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The EFF breaks up its article into two parts, the first dealing with the upgrade tactics. It calls out the obvious with references to the Get Windows 10 app, the switch to Windows 10 being a recommended update, and of course, when Microsoft changed the Get Windows 10 app so that closing it confirmed the upgrade.


It's at this point that a reader would wonder what the point of the EFF's article is. If it's to serve as a warning to potential Windows 10 users, none of that section is relevant at all, given that all of those aggressive tactics are in the rear-view mirror. If it's a call-to-action for Microsoft, that doesn't make it more pertinent. The entire section of the article comes across as a means of setting the reader up for the next section: privacy concerns.
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The EFF calls out Microsoft for disregarding user choice and privacy in Windows 10
 
I agree with the Neowin article author when he says,
It's at this point that a reader would wonder what the point of the EFF's article is. If it's to serve as a warning to potential Windows 10 users, none of that section is relevant at all, given that all of those aggressive tactics are in the rear-view mirror. If it's a call-to-action for Microsoft, that doesn't make it more pertinent. The entire section of the article comes across as a means of setting the reader up for the next section: privacy concerns.
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This is just more whining by a wannabe journalist at EFF. He needs to get over it. There is a HUGE difference between privacy and security. Microsoft is NOT trying to steal our passwords, hack into our back accounts, or turn our computers in to a zombie in a bot-army. If paranoid about your privacy, destroy your cell phone. Your cell phone carrier not only knows where you are currently standing within a few yards (to include the aisle of the store you are in), they know where you have been, who you've been talking/texting with, and the direction (and speed) you are heading - not to mention your billing address and personal information - like your birthday and SSN!

If you dislike Windows 10 so much, use Linux.
 
I've still got ~4 years support on W7, plus the option to use W10. XP's still on ~10% of PC's last time I checked, still no sign of that melting out through all the security holes that were forecast.
 
I've still got ~4 years support on W7
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Well, kinda. "Mainstream" support for W7 already ended in January 2015. "Extended" support will last until January 2010, less than 3.5 years away. That means only security updates will be available for consumers. Non-security updates, that is, fixes to other bugs, and support for new hardware and protocols, etc. will not be fixed or implemented unless you pay for the Extended Hotfix Support program.
 
I rarely use/install anything MS other than security updates anyway, I have no need for any protocols other than TCP/IPv4, pointless me even enabling v6, it won't work here. Like XP, W7 isn't going into meltdown just because MS would like it to disappear. I have no immediate plans to move to new hardware, my main and alt. are already overspecced for my normal usage.

There's only 1 thing I miss from W10, take a guess?
 
The ability to scroll inactive windows, not just the active one. Neat feature/option, though almost 5 days on, I don't think I'm expecting it any more.
 
Yeah, it was a long overdue feature. Linux has had it awhile and some 3rd party apps could add it to previous versions of Windows.
 

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