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Massive Windows 10 News Hides 5 Nasty Surprises

Sometimes showing off has a way of coming back to bite you. In an understandably celebratory post Microsoft MSFT -3.85% has revealed Windows 10 is now active on over 200 million devices (though this includes Xbox One upgrades and Windows 10 Mobile smartphones). Then it made a series of boasts which exposed something rather shocking…

RetrospectRealm3254d ago (Edited 3254d ago )

Pretty much every technological user based company spies on their users. Just for usage data though, nothing weird most of the time. It helps them know what the users want.

Bimkoblerutso3254d ago

If people wanted Microsoft to know what they wanted, they would tell Microsoft what they wanted.

thereapersson3254d ago

Why don't they just survey users instead of mining them? Google tracks users in ads, yet in those web ads, I RARELY see anything relevant that I'm interested in even if I've looked at something related before. Just more ways of keeping tabs on people's behavior so other companies can get their fingers in your head.

UltraNova3253d ago

Do you really believe what you've just said?

Really? Its ok to be spied without you knowing the specifics, without your consent only after full disclosure?

Do you really believe that all this obscured data mining is just to learn what you want and give it to you?

Goddamn it, its truly scary where this world is headed.

SonZeRo3254d ago

Not surprised by most of that, except that so many people still use MS browsers and that they can tell how much game time is spent and how many images are viewed in the image viewer.

gizmig3254d ago

Well every company is trying to gather data and to organize that date in future. So I am not shocked if Microsoft is in that queue too.

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annoyedgamer3254d ago

Not defending Microsoft in any way but all major corporations do this and they hand it over to the feds as well.

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RetrospectRealm3254d ago

@Bimkoblerutso Lol What? That's dumb. This is how companies figure out what their customers do so they can better their products. This is nothing new. It's been going on for YEARS.

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