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Re: [OM] How to protect yourself from Windows 10

Subject: Re: [OM] How to protect yourself from Windows 10
From: Lawrence Plummer <plummerl@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:10:19 -0700
On 8/10/2015 3:34 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
 
> As far as I know there are no comments to the Slate article.  I read  Paul 
> Thurrott's
> article 3 times and most of the comments more than once.   Some of those 
> comments
> support my position.  Sorry, I think Thurrot's  defense of Microsoft is very 
> weak and
> mostly incomplete. Note that  Thurrott's article is not a direct refutation 
> of the
> Slate article. 
> The fundamental fact is that Microsoft has changed their business model  to 
> be more
> like Google or even more like Google than Google.  It is  their intention to 
> collect
> vast amounts of personal data and don't tell  you about it.  There are opt 
> outs
> provided but most ordinary users won't  know about them or be able to find 
> them.  But
> perhaps I'm just a privacy  fanatic.  I have a Google account but don't use 
> it or
> gmail.  I don't  use Facebook or other social media.
> 
> I continue to maintain that for the computer users that I support there  is 
> very
> little upside to a Windows 10 conversion.  And we haven't even  mentioned 
> bugs and
> incompatibilities yet or Microsoft's diddling with  your browser and 
> antivirus apps.
> 
> Color me unconvinced>> Chuck Norcutt There are currently about 233 comments 
> on the article. Revealing the comments is notvery obvious. At either the end 
> of the article or next to the "NEXT" page jump,the fourth red icon, will 
> bring up the comments. I'd be interested in what/where you got the knowledge 
> to say the above as fact. The Slate article has essentially modified the 
> actual EULA with the manner in whichit is presented. With the insertion of 
> the comma and deleting the rest of it, he iscompletely misleading the reader. 
> larry
                                          
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