Windows 10 Anniversary Update Drops Days After Free Upgrade Period Ends

[USAFRet]

Get over yourselves. You have absolutely nothing worthy to spy on. But just to be sure I think you should go back to Windows 3.11

It has 100% nothing to do with being worthy, they have NO right to spy on me without a warrant or my "ok". We do have this thing in the US called a constitution and what they are doing is illegal, period.

You have the absolute right to not use Windows. Win 10 or otherwise.
Illegal? No. You signed an agreement. Much like the agreement with your cellphone provider.

If you don't like what Win 10 (or 7 & 8.1) is doing, simply don't use it.

 

[nukemaster]

steam store is not showing the page , i know it's not a big deal but with windows 10 you expect everything to be perfect , i know it's something with insider preview cause if i format my computer and install the stable version 1511 then everything would be fine ..

That is a new one I have yet to see. Please report in feedback if you can. I may be lucky, but use steam all the time on Window 10(since it is only on my gaming computer)

I just want to be able to actually stop automatic updates and whatever Windows 10 does with my internet. Not for privacy or some hipster reason, no. I just hate it when I'm enjoying a session of an online game then get eaten up by lag because this dipshit update service is eating up my bandwidth, clogging up my network.

Can you please use the feedback app to recommend that. The more people who recommend the more likely they are to listen. The bandwidth eating for updates does kind of suck(even worse with a new build since it is huge.).

 

[surphninja]

Ah I love how everyone says "Windows 10 is spyware!" while there on social media and using questionable free programs and apps leaking out all sorts of information

That's like saying, "They have cameras installed on all of the red lights- might as well let them install cameras in your living room. Same thing!"

 

[jimmyEatWord]

windows 10 is not spyware , google is the real spy , even google dns is essentially spy tool , if you ever installed kaspersky total security on your computer it would warn you that google is spying on you , hotspot shield vpn too

 

[targetdrone]

Kaspersky is Russian and connected to the KGB.

 

[jimmyEatWord]

i'de rather be spied on by the KGB than the NSA , i'm sure the russians will be less interested

 

[techy1966]

I have been using Windows 10 since the insider previews first thing I learned was to turn off Windows update service which stops it in its tracks. Yes you have to go & do it manual then but at least it is not eating up your bandwidth every chance it gets. I also got rid of cortana completely as well as Windows defender. It is also a good idea to turn off almost everything in the Privacy tab settings it not only gives back system resources because a lot of the back ground apps are not turned on by default it also cuts down on or stops information being sent back to MS. There are a lot of things that you can do to make Windows 10 a fairly safe OS to the user you just have to look for the options that are out there from tech sites but as always if you choose to use free software always make sure it is not riddled with malware or which ever. The new update coming in August most likely will have tamper proof setting in it so people will have a harder time getting around the privacy setting but as always people will figure it out as they always have in the past. To stay on Windows 7 because you think it has more privacy for the user or is safer to use is wishful thinking. I am sure MS has made updates to Win 7 & WIn 8.1 that make them a lot less private. I do know that since Win 10 came out update patches for Win 7 & 8.1 have broke Windows update which causes it to eat up all of your system memory and making your system so slow that when the big fancy Windows 10 alert comes up to upgrade most users are so fed up with their old OS that they are very happy to click upgrade and that is what MS wants & planned on when they broke Windows update for the older OS's. Now there is a way to fix it if you want to stay on your older OS get GWX control panel use it and Windows 10 upgrade goes away and will not bother you again. I have even seen it get rid of the memory leak and your old OS starts working as it did before Windows 10 release and when that does not work you just turn off the Windows update service and disable it this is not the safest way to fix the problem but it works my advice to customers that want to stay on their old OS is to manually run Win update twice a month to get those security updates just in case heck I even have a script I made that I give them that does it for them all they have to do is click it on the desktop and it does the work and when finished it disables win update again. Just my thoughts on this topic oh & sorry for the long post. To those in Canada have a happy Canada day Friday.

 

[jerrspud]

Just like many of us have been paying since the Windows 95 days. Right.
.

Win 3.1 I still have my disks

 

[koss64]

I am very interested in the Educator options especially the Take a Test app. I cant wait for more information on it.

 

[3ogdy]

I am very interested in the Educator options especially the Take a Test app. I cant wait for more information on it.

They surely won't educate on privacy.

 

[3ogdy]

Get over yourselves. You have absolutely nothing worthy to spy on. But just to be sure I think you should go back to Windows 3.11

Those who are willing to trade privacy for "security" shall have neither.

Right now I'm wondering if Microsoft has toilets out in the open...I mean...in the middle of an open area where office desks are supposed to be placed. Don't tell me they have a separate room with opaque doors serving as "service area" / "toilets"!!!

Why so much privacy, Microsh*t? Your employees have nothing to hide, then as a consequence, nothing to worry about!

 

[USAFRet]

Get over yourselves. You have absolutely nothing worthy to spy on. But just to be sure I think you should go back to Windows 3.11

Those who are willing to trade privacy for "security" shall have neither.

Right now I'm wondering if Microsoft has toilets out in the open...I mean...in the middle of an open area where office desks are supposed to be placed. Don't tell me they have a separate room with opaque doors serving as "service area" / "toilets"!!!

Why so much privacy, Microsh*t? Your employees have nothing to hide, then as a consequence, nothing to worry about!

So what OS, ISP, and cell phone provider do you use?
What country do you live in?

 

[bananaforscale]

Meh, I have an install image made with the upgrade tool. I'll try W10 on my second game-capable PC first, my 2-in-1 tablet thingy isn't getting it because I don't trust it will have driver support. I mean, there was apparently supposed to be a free upgrade to 64-bit 8.1 after the keyboard dock got working 64-bit drivers. That didn't happen, drivers for W10 are even less likely.

Hell, I wish Vulkan gets adopted everywhere. Then I'd have no reason to switch to W10 ever. 😛

 

[ahnilated]

Get over yourselves. You have absolutely nothing worthy to spy on. But just to be sure I think you should go back to Windows 3.11

Those who are willing to trade privacy for "security" shall have neither.

Right now I'm wondering if Microsoft has toilets out in the open...I mean...in the middle of an open area where office desks are supposed to be placed. Don't tell me they have a separate room with opaque doors serving as "service area" / "toilets"!!!

Why so much privacy, Microsh*t? Your employees have nothing to hide, then as a consequence, nothing to worry about!

So what OS, ISP, and cell phone provider do you use?
What country do you live in?

You realize all those are choices, right? When a company sells you an OS you don't automatically assume that it is riddled with spy ware and sends all you do to that company. If that is where we are going I am glad I use Linux at home and maybe it is time to dump the cell also. I don't like being tracked but I fixed that on my cell.

 

[Hashmael]

Yeesh, all this griping about privacy. All the customer experience improvement stuff is both opt out and anonymized, and Cortana and all the related features with microphone access, webcam access, and personal data...
They're all opt-out features.
Siri and Google Now and Amazon Alexa all do the same stuff, and yet somehow people hold Windows to a different standard.
Why?
Is it because you take your desktop OS more seriously when it comes to privacy? You know, the computer *without* the integrated GPS antenna, the one you *don't* always carry around with you some powered on?
Quit griping about what was clearly inevitable. Go to your damned settings menu.

 

[captaincharisma]

Ah I love how everyone says "Windows 10 is spyware!" while there on social media and using questionable free programs and apps leaking out all sorts of information

Being on Social media is a choice, having the computer auto send everything you are doing to Microsoft without the option of saying NO, is a big difference. Having them force down updates that can/will crash your computer is also a huge problem in my book. Having them try and force you to go to windows 10 and putting up beg messages all the time should be illegal.

so is installing windows 10 sooo.........

the only people who really bitch about piracy are people who are most likely doing something illegal

 

[Unolocogringo]

Ah I love how everyone says "Windows 10 is spyware!" while there on social media and using questionable free programs and apps leaking out all sorts of information

Being on Social media is a choice, having the computer auto send everything you are doing to Microsoft without the option of saying NO, is a big difference. Having them force down updates that can/will crash your computer is also a huge problem in my book. Having them try and force you to go to windows 10 and putting up beg messages all the time should be illegal.

so is installing windows 10 sooo.........

the only people who really bitch about piracy are people who are most likely doing something illegal

Some of us use our computers for business.
A lot of my customers are just as privacy concerned as I am.
When I tell them that their personal information is safe and will not ever be shared or sold, I am obligated to do so.
Switching to Win 10 means that I no longer have control of their personal data. Microsoft would get all of their information, names, address, email,credit card numbers, contract information, etc.... Which would then be sold to anyone willing to buy it.
If you sync it with your phone, they also get all of the information from your phone. And anyone's phone that connects to your WI-FI.

Besides smoking the occasional doobie, I do not do anything illegal, and I am not trying to hide anything. So your comment is way off base and genuinely insulting.
How about I wire your home completely with video cameras and feed them onto the web? Since you do not care about privacy,and have nothing to hide.
Pretty much the same thing Microsoft is doing with windows 10.

 

[ahnilated]

Ah I love how everyone says "Windows 10 is spyware!" while there on social media and using questionable free programs and apps leaking out all sorts of information

Being on Social media is a choice, having the computer auto send everything you are doing to Microsoft without the option of saying NO, is a big difference. Having them force down updates that can/will crash your computer is also a huge problem in my book. Having them try and force you to go to windows 10 and putting up beg messages all the time should be illegal.

so is installing windows 10 sooo.........

the only people who really bitch about piracy are people who are most likely doing something illegal

That is 100% not true. I don't want anyone spying on me, it is illegal, period. This is the prime reason I am using Linux and don't fall prey to the Microshaft b.s.

 

[USAFRet]

Win 10 is teh evul, blah blah.
I posted these 3 links regarding Win 7 & 8 in another thread, and got downvoted.
Let's see if the same happens here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2978239/windows/microsoft-slips-user-tracking-tools-into-windows-7-8-amidst-windows-10-privacy-storm.html
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/microsoft-accused-of-adding-spy-features-to-windows-7-8/
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/213183-once-more-with-tracking-microsoft-backports-privacy-invading-windows-10-features-to-windows-7-8

 

[USAFRet]

You realize all those are choices, right? When a company sells you an OS you don't automatically assume that it is riddled with spy ware and sends all you do to that company. If that is where we are going I am glad I use Linux at home and maybe it is time to dump the cell also. I don't like being tracked but I fixed that on my cell.

Yes, that was my point.
You have the choice to use something other than Win 10. As you have apparently done.

Cell phone? I misplaced my cell 6 months ago. Literally.
I just found it today. Literally. Charged it up, reset minutes, etc...
Have not missed it.

 

[jimmyEatWord]

i wonder when the stable release of the redstone will come out , cause they probably released like 40 insider preview's for this update , and each time you have to download 3-4 gigabytes , it's not quite like iOS updates , which microsoft seems to be trying to mimic ..

 

[Ambular]

Win 10 is teh evul, blah blah.
I posted these 3 links regarding Win 7 & 8 in another thread, and got downvoted.
Let's see if the same happens here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2978239/windows/microsoft-slips-user-tracking-tools-into-windows-7-8-amidst-windows-10-privacy-storm.html
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/microsoft-accused-of-adding-spy-features-to-windows-7-8/
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/213183-once-more-with-tracking-microsoft-backports-privacy-invading-windows-10-features-to-windows-7-8

Won't downvote you for posting links to factually correct information, but I will note that Windows 7 and 8 users have the option of not installing (or uninstalling) those and any other updates they don't want. If I understand correctly, this is not an option in Windows 10.

 

[ahnilated]

Win 10 is teh evul, blah blah.
I posted these 3 links regarding Win 7 & 8 in another thread, and got downvoted.
Let's see if the same happens here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2978239/windows/microsoft-slips-user-tracking-tools-into-windows-7-8-amidst-windows-10-privacy-storm.html
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/microsoft-accused-of-adding-spy-features-to-windows-7-8/
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/213183-once-more-with-tracking-microsoft-backports-privacy-invading-windows-10-features-to-windows-7-8

Yep, I know they are trying to sneak these in. I now look very carefully through any updates i put on a Windows based computer at work or even a gaming Windows based computer.

 

[USAFRet]

Won't downvote you for posting links to factually correct information, but I will note that Windows 7 and 8 users have the option of not installing (or uninstalling) those and any other updates they don't want. If I understand correctly, this is not an option in Windows 10.

A long existing issue with Windows was people not doing any updates, ever. Result? Huge virus/malware holes. Which were fixed in later updates, but people did not apply them, leaving those systems vulnerable.
Result? Microsoft is lambasted for this.

Fix?
You cannot blow off OS updates. They will come automatically.
You can stop device driver updates.
If you have Win 10 Pro, you can defer OS updates for 90 days, to test in your environment.
Result? Microsoft is lambasted for this.

So what do you think they should do? Force or not force? Either way, people will yell.

 

[Ambular]

A long existing issue with Windows was people not doing any updates, ever. Result? Huge virus/malware holes. Which were fixed in later updates, but people did not apply them, leaving those systems vulnerable.
Result? Microsoft is lambasted for this.

Fix?
You cannot blow off OS updates. They will come automatically.
You can stop device driver updates.
If you have Win 10 Pro, you can defer OS updates for 90 days, to test in your environment.
Result? Microsoft is lambasted for this.

So what do you think they should do? Force or not force? Either way, people will yell.

There will never be a perfect solution. But I'd say a good compromise would be to make critical security and stability-related patches mandatory, and feature upgrades, drivers, telemetry, and anything else not absolutely essential to the safe and stable operation of the machine, optional.