Microsoft's Vista 10 Disaster Returns, Privacy Violations, and Moving to GNU/Linux
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If at first or second you don't succeed, you may be Microsoft: Hold off installing re-released Windows Oct Update
The 1809 build of Windows 10 and Windows Server is fast becoming infamous. Microsoft pulled it shortly after release when it started deleting people's files, and stumbling in other ways. Redmond reissued the software on Tuesday, and today it's clear you shouldn't rush into deploying it, if installing it at all, in its present state.
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Microsoft Just Crammed Ads Into Windows 10 Mail. When Will They Stop? [Ed: With Vista 10 the users are the product. The spies from Microsoft spy on them (sometimes illegally, but these people are above the law) and their real clients are advertisers.]
Whether it’s pre-installing Candy Crush Saga, showing full-screen ads on your lock screen, or displaying banner ads in File Explorer, Microsoft has been shoehorning ads into every inch of Windows 10. The Mail app is getting them next.
Update: Microsoft’s head of communications, Frank Shaw, just backpedaled on Twitter. He said “this is an experimental feature that was never intended to be tested broadly and is being turned off.” As Mehedi Hassan notes over at Thurrott, this is a strange claim because Microsoft has a detailed support page explaining these advertisements.
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Microsoft menaced with GDPR mega-fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Office
Microsoft broke Euro privacy rules by carrying out the "large scale and covert" gathering of private data through its Office apps.
That's according to a report out this month [PDF] that was commissioned by the Dutch government into how information handled by 300,000 of its workers was processed by Microsoft's Office ProPlus suite. This software is installed on PCs and connects to Office 365 servers.
The dossier's authors found that the Windows goliath was collecting telemetry and other content from its Office applications, including email titles and sentences where translation or spellchecker was used, and secretly storing the data on systems in the United States. That's a no-no.
Those actions break Europe's new GDPR privacy safeguards, it is claimed, and may put Microsoft on the hook for potentially tens of millions of dollars in fines. The Dutch authorities are working with the corporation to fix the situation, and are using the threat of a fine as a stick to make it happen.
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How old were you when you first started using Linux?
Whether you switched from another operating system, or are one of the lucky few who knew no OS before it, all of us were beginners at some point.
How old were you when you started using Linux? Do you remember that time clearly, or is it so far in the past that it's but a faint memory?
Regardless of the answer, let us know when it was, and maybe, a bit about what that experience has meant to you.
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