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Wednesday, 25 November 2015
It seems that every new update brings the newest iteration of Windows increasingly closer to giving Microsoft total control over the way users can operate their own computers. The most recent update makes that abundantly clear.
Malware is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition as:
While computer users typically think of that definition applying to viruses, it unfortunately fits Windows 10 — and increasingly Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 — very well. What else do you call an operating system that reports back to its developers supplying them with personally identifiable information about you including
your name
e-mail address
postal address
phone number
passwords
password hints
age
gender
browsing history
address book
calendar
contents of your e-mails
access to all your files
including pictures
videos
documents
anything else stored on your hard drive
What about an operating system that, while doing all that, hides updates from you, will not provide you information about them, and installs them even when you have told it not to?
What about that same operating system being designed in such a way that you cannot even turn off these settings?
If none of that rises to the level of defining Windows 10 (and, because of updates, Windows 7, 8, and 8.1) as malware, the most recent news certainly does.
The New American has previously reported on the outrageous Microsoft Services Agreement and accompanying documents that must be agreed to before any Microsoft product or service can be used.
We explained:
The Microsoft Services Agreement also gives the software empire permission to not only install whatever software it chooses on your computer, but also to delete whatever software it chooses from your computer.
Microsoft announced its Windows 10 November update with great fanfare. What the company did not tell users was that the update would give Microsoft the ability to reach into their computers and remove software that the company deemed either unstable (based on its own criteria) or pirated (based on its own assumptions). Just whose computer is it, anyway?
Venture Beat reports that, after receiving the update, many users complained that software they had installed before the update was deleted and they were notified that it was “not supported.” When they simply reinstalled the software, it worked just as it had before. So far the deletion of programs has been mostly limited to “hardware monitoring tools CPU-Z and Speccy as well as the AMD Catalyst Control Center for tweaking your Radeon graphics cards,” according to Venture Beat.
So, it looks as if it impacts only users of higher-end computers such as those used for gaming. But that does not mean it will not be coming soon to a workstation near you.
As Venture Beat reported:
Of course none of this answers why valid software packages were removed from user’s computers or why — if the programs were “not supported” — the users were able to reinstall them without problem.
All the recent heavy-handedness from Microsoft has many computer users seeking other operating systems. Many are looking to Apple and the Mac OS.
Others who want more freedom and control over their computers are looking increasingly to one of the many distributions of Linux.
As this writer noted last year, the best way to protect your systems against surveillance by both overreaching governments and nosy corporations is to replace Windows with Linux and apply several software tools that are both free and freely available.
Microsoft’s new policies are making it increasingly easy to convince people to do just that.
In the interest of fairness, the writer of this article has been a Linux user for several years and does not use any Microsoft products or services. This article was written on his System76 Bonobo Extreme running Ubuntu 14.04 using LibreOffice 4.2.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/22026-windows-10-deletes-users-programs
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bill gates sux but we know that
Yes, Baal – Bill sux, but he that greedy that he sux himself in the end.
I turned off automatic updates only to find that Win 10 turned them back on, informing me that it would automatically turn this setting back to automatic- for my protection…or should that read: “Safety & Security?”
Obviously Microsoft is telling users to p*ss off! Well, who’s better than them?
Microsoft is out of, and of the military-industrial complex, a IBM spin-off. Bill Gates only the puppet front. He allegedly programmed the first 640kb in every x86 cpu. I think he did nothing of such dignity, only a front as I said.