The Mighty Hath Fallen

[Odinson]

I like PC.



Its like Millenium Falcon.



You can stop at the spaceport to upgrade new more powerful drive.



You cant make mac look really cool.



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[Bricktop]

It may have a rather..interesting...external appearance...but its still a dog inside.

[J0E]

Windows 10 will be a free download for owners of Windows 7 and 8



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[Bricktop]

And why would Microsoft, renown for its greed and monopolising, suddenly become all benevolent and generous?

[Frood]

Governments are bankrolling even more backdoors?

[J0E]

And why would Microsoft, renown for its greed and monopolising, suddenly become all benevolent and generous?

...I think they hope to recoupe their costs through advertising. The New OS appears to come with built-in links to advertisers, so of course if MS can make billions from them, then it offsets the 'free' downloads from users.

[J0E]

This Article states the concerns several users have made over privacy issues of the new Windows operating system:



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Windows 10 is under attack over default settings which users say compromise their privacy, just days after the operating system's successful launch saw more than 14 million installs in the first 24 hours.



Hundreds of commenters on sites such as Hacker News and Reddit have criticised default settings that send personal information to Microsoft, use bandwidth to upload data to other computers running the operating system, share Wi-Fi passwords with online friends and remove the ability to opt out of security updates.



Many of the complaints relate to the new personalised adverts embedded in Windows 10. When the OS is installed, Microsoft assigns the user a unique advertising ID, which it ties to the email address registered with the company. That email address is also associated with a raft of other services, such as the company's productivity and communication programs, as well as app downloads and cloud-storage uploads.



Using that information, Microsoft is able to personalise ads to the user, during both web surfing and, for newer apps downloaded from the Windows Store, app usage. Microsoft itself is leading the way on that front, even turning the in-built version of Solitaire (the card game that has been a staple of Windows installations since 1990's Windows 3.0) into a freemium game, complete with unskippable video adverts.