yup, and if I'm not mistaken, learning typing inputs is pretty much the definition of a keylogger. Lovely way for Microsoft to help those trying to get your info. Instead of having to trick you into installing malicious code/software, all they have to do is gain access to Cortana's "memory" of what you type. Be on the lookout for a big zero day in the near future.
Microsoft will make Cortana mandatory in Anniversary Update
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yup, and if I'm not mistaken, learning typing inputs is pretty much the definition of a keylogger. Lovely way for Microsoft to help those trying to get your info. Instead of having to trick you into installing malicious code/software, all they have to do is gain access to Cortana's "memory" of what you type. Be on the lookout for a big zero day in the near future.
IceIceAyu
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I think businesses can still get out through Group Policy settings.
Evernessince
Posts: 5,469 +6,158
Well any business with a capable IT department should be able to get around it. The problem is that many small to medium size business don't and not everyone has a IT guy handy to do a quick job for little to no pay.
treetops
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What is the number one searched term for bing? Google.
What is the number one downloaded program on IE? Chrome.
Well at least for me lol. Just went to ten hoping it would ask me, what drive do you want to install this on? Nope, now windows 7 is gone. But I will revive it eventually and install it on my 2nd ssd.
What is the number one downloaded program on IE? Chrome.
Well at least for me lol. Just went to ten hoping it would ask me, what drive do you want to install this on? Nope, now windows 7 is gone. But I will revive it eventually and install it on my 2nd ssd.
So this is sort of crossing a line too fast and too far after pushing everyone off their previous operating systems.
Like everyone else, I use Chrome. I never want Edge to open on my system.
Like everyone else I use Google for searches. I never want Bing to have any information about me or my searches.
The idea that I would have to violate both of these preferences just so I can continue to use a basic search function for local files is very nearly enough to turn Microsoft, for me at least, into a disk image I use to run games while everything else gets done on Linux.
I honestly wonder what they are thinking with this? Do they imagine that people are not going to notice they are being strong armed off their preferred solutions to inferior Microsoft products?
Been needing an excuse to load up a current Linux build. Bring on this abomination and let's be done with the age of Microsoft already.
Like everyone else, I use Chrome. I never want Edge to open on my system.
Like everyone else I use Google for searches. I never want Bing to have any information about me or my searches.
The idea that I would have to violate both of these preferences just so I can continue to use a basic search function for local files is very nearly enough to turn Microsoft, for me at least, into a disk image I use to run games while everything else gets done on Linux.
I honestly wonder what they are thinking with this? Do they imagine that people are not going to notice they are being strong armed off their preferred solutions to inferior Microsoft products?
Been needing an excuse to load up a current Linux build. Bring on this abomination and let's be done with the age of Microsoft already.
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WhatYouSay
Funny, I remember reading quite a bit in the Bible, and I don't ever recall it saying that Cortana will be the downfall of man in the end times. I also don't recall the Bible having any verses in it that say the government will know all about you. And I 100% sure the Bible doesn't say "In the end times, man must have 2 or 3 jobs to support a family"...where do you get this idiocy that you're spouting from? Please, by all means, since you are so well versed in the Bible, point me to the Chapters and Verses dealing with these topics you are talking about. And don't forget to give me the version of the Bible you are getting this rhetoric from as well.
Danny101
Posts: 2,035 +842
While Microsoft is pushing the globalists agenda, thankfully, we may have another option. https://www.reactos.org/. A group of programmers who are building a community OS much in the same vein as Linux, but able to run Windows applications. I've yet to try it, but will set aside a computer to try it out. I hope it turns out to be what it promises to be.
you may want to kick yourself. after the forced install (or for that matter even a voluntary install) of w10 there was a 30 day period to revert to your previous os.
when I went to win 7-64 bit, I found that I could no longer install any 8 bit programs. I had a lot of games from w95 that were now trash unless I went to a dual boot os or changed to a win 7 32 bit. I'll bet that with a 128 bit os 16 and many even 32 bit programs won't install or run.
TheBigFatClown
Posts: 1,110 +495
This is what I feared about Windows "10"(wink wink) from the beginning. The very nature of a constantly morphing operating system is scary especially given Microsofts track record of using strong-arm tactics. Giving Windows a version name such as 10 was a gimmick to keep the sheep moving all at the same time. It changes daily and you have to go with those changes whether you want them or not.
I have 24 hours left to decide whether to taint my Windows 7 key by relating it to Windows 10. The imposed deadline is psychologically making me think I'm missing out on something big if I dont.
This articles makes me think even harder. I think I'll stick with my current configuration. One system with Windows 7, a second system with Windows 10, and "never the twain shall meet".
Thanks for the link to ReactOS. I've never heard of it but it looks very interesting.
LOL at all the people formerly gushing over Windows 10 now surprised at the changing tactics as the "free" period ends. It's called "bait and switch" and was 100% predicted the moment they announced it was both "free" and that you couldn't disable updates (the combination of which is an open admission you're no longer Microsoft's customer, you're the new monetized product for Microsoft's new customers (advertisers)). What's surprising is that people are surprised over what the inevitable effect of that is...
We bow before you oh lord; we are not worthy.
fktech
Posts: 542 +147
We saw this coming!
infiltrator
Posts: 171 +31
It's for this very reason, that I am building a network firewall. So that I can block what comes in and goes out of my network. I'm already blocking Cortana by using a personal firewall. Microsoft can do whatever the f*cker they want with their OS, but in my network I have control.
You can run a Linux Server and install Resara or OpenLDAP. Both are Active Directory alternatives.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/resaraserver/
http://www.openldap.org/
I did not mean to be patronising, but quite honestly if people haven't figured out what Windows 10 is about even based on just Solitaire's "Rent at $10 per year now to remove recently introduced ads", then they probably never will...
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BrianMontanye
Posts: 83 +65
Normally, I am on MS side on stuff as it seems most of the time folks just see MS in the title and go off unreasonably on them.. This time however, I have to agree with the users. It is NEVER a good idea to force a feature on users. I don't mind Cortana and find it useful, even if it isn't a gamebreaker. But even I find it a bit overlordish to force this on users.
if you are a developer staying on windows 10 is pretty much mandatory now unless you use something that works only on windows 7.
- you can finally remove the 265 character limits for path --> you can finally delete folders created by NPM
- native linux bash commands and software
- native docker support
- hyper-v can also enabled from "turn windows features on/off"
- using the new command prompt is so much better than the older one
- the built in multi-desktop works like a charm too
Bigtruckseries
Posts: 583 +320
Does this mean my mic will always be on?
So, it will be a lot longer than a year since there do not seem to be any such near term prospects for any 128-bit address capable CPU's available to us ordinary mortals any time soon...
NahNood
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NahNood
Posts: 133 +71
Good question but that can easily be handled in the audio settings.
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