Windows 8

[Meho Krljic]

XP korisnici mogu da dignu ruke u vis od sreće. Majkrosoft je ranije objavio da prestaje sa podrškom za XP od osmog Aprila ove godine, što bi značilo da navala brutalnog malwarea kreće negde od devetog Aprila uveče, međutim, sad je period podrške produžen do četrnajstog Jula 2015!!!!!!!!! Slutim da je neko u Majkrosoftu shvatio da ukidanje podrške za XP znači da bi pola Kine gurnuli u naručje Linuxa i to ne bilo kakvog Linuxa nego Googleovog Chrome OS-a, pošto Google samo čeka da ljudi posrnu da ih savataju. Tako da, svakako je zanimljivo videti da Ballmer još nije ni otišao a Microsoft već donosi relativno razumne odluke.

[tomat]

lepe vesti!

[Meho Krljic]

Ne treba zaboraviti i da 95% svetskih  bankomata radi pod XP-om.

[Meho Krljic]

Dakle, samo da i ovde potbrdio, Satya Nadella otpušta 18.000 ljudi iz Majkrosofta u naporu da firmu bolje fokusira na pravi posao i smanji birokratski balast (menadžere srednjeg reda itd.), po ugledu na male, uspešne firme koje danas na tržištu kapitala ostvaruju sjajne investicije, a na tržištu softvera obrću brze pare najpre na ime svojih ideja. Zvuči sjajno, ali ono što se da pročitati između redova je da Nadella, da li na nagovor deoničara ili već, po sopstvenom njuhu, misli da je dobra ideja da multinacionalna korporacija ove veličine pokušava da se takmiči sa startapovima koji ostvaruju brzu zaradu i magnetski privlače venčr kapital zato što, eto, ove nedlje trenduju na tviteru a za par meseci ih se niko ne seća. Naravno, ja sam neuki tupan sa Balkana, a Nadella je ozbiljan igrač, no, ne mogu se oteti utisku da je ovo još jedan sjajan primer modernog kapitalističkog svetonazora gde je kratkoročni rast (čak ni profit, samo rast) sve, jer to zadovoljava investitore i gornji sloj menadžmenta koji dobija bonuse, a šta će biti za godinu-dve, o tome nek brinu naši naslednici...

[ALEKSIJE D.]

Linux je za mene uvek bio primer kako se na finjaka kradu ideje. Neko ti lepo odradi gomilu programa, sve to za dž zarad lične napaljenosti i sujete, sačekaš neko vreme, prebaciš u drugi jezik već gotove programčiće, malko promeniš dizajn i zašititiš autorska prava i miran si.
Par ranijih distribucija (sad ne mogu da se opsetim tačno imena) Linuxa kasnije sam video kao nešto na  što je ličio Mac X ili Leopard. Čak sam i rešenja iz Viste i sedmice nalazio neku godinu radnije u raznim distribucijama Kubunta, Ubuntu, Redhat, Fedora i sl.

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, dobro, ali sama filozofija open sourcea predviđa da, dok tebi neki pokrade dizajnerska rešenja, implementira ih u svoj closed source sistem, obezbedi kopirajt i trejdmarkove, ti si već negde drugde, sa novijim i lepšim rešenjima.

[ALEKSIJE D.]

Uz sve muke da se izboriš sa os open sourcea koji stalno izvodi neke kerefeke. Pojdini programi koje mogu da teram na drugim OS, tipa Open ofisa i nekih za muziku i film su mi sasvim ok. Čitav sistem, ponekad deluje zbunjujuće.
No, ja još učim kako da se izborim sa 7-icom kupljenom uz komp. Najrađe bi to deinstalirao i krnuo Ubuntu 10, ali bih morao da se selim iz kuće...

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, uvek imaš opciju da uradiš dual boot - Ubuntu za tebe a W7 za druge ukućane i svi zadovoljni.

[Albedo 0]

da, zar ne bješe neki program koji ubuntu pokreće iz windowsa? ili sam barem tako čuo...

[BladeRunner]

Ima više načina. Recimo, da se u sedmici digne virtuelna mašina (VMware, Citrix), pa se tu instalira Ubuntu ili neki drugi OS. To znači da se unutar Windowsa 7, može pokrenuti Ubuntu (više instanci ako treba). Druga varijanta je da se u Linuxu iskonfiguriše dual boot - u ovom slučaju, prilikom podizanja mašine pojavi se izbor OS-a, pa korisnik startuje jedan (lako se podešava koji je defaultni, koliko dugo je meni vidljiv i slično). Treće je slično prvom - instalira se Ubuntu, pa se onda u Ubuntuu instalira virtuelna mašina (ovdje je već mnogo bolji Citrix za Ubuntu, a KVM za RH odnosno CentOS; powerVM za AIX ali to je već egzotika), pa je tu guest Windows 7.

Po meni, najbolje radi ova dual bot varijanta (ili Windows 7 + Live Linux, Knoppix recimo). To, sa već instaliranom sedmicom radiš tako što oslobodiš jednu particiju kako bi u nju ubacio Linux (najbolja varijanta), ili, ako je već sve puno, odradiš resize iz Linuxovog instalacionog menija (samo što ja ovo ne bi radio bez bekapa). Tu je i partition magic, kako bi isto to (samo sigurnije) odradio iz Windowsa - poslije samo ubaciš Linux DVD, on prepozna prazninu i ubaci se unutra - čak ti napravi sam dual boot meni. Inače, od Linux distribucija, od kad se pojavio iritantni Unity, skoro svaki Ubuntu klon je bolji od originala (Mint recimo).

Srećno!

[Meho Krljic]

Nadela je najavio da od sad pa nadalje sve verzije Windowsa ima da budu jedna, to jest, nema više odvojenih verzija OS-a za različite sprave nego će i desktop i tablet i telefon da voze isti sistem koji će se nekako pametno prilagođavati platformi.

Deluje kao pojednostavljenje, pogotovo na strani developera, jer će se koristiti isti kod za sve, iste razvojne alatke itd., ali već i uzgredni pogled na komentare pokazuje da je mnogo ljudi reagovalo isto kao i ja - besmisleno je imati isti OS na spravama koje imaju radikalno različite funkcije i namene, neke od sprava će patiti jer će imati nedovoljno optimizovan interfejs a druge jer guraju previše glomaznog koda za sitan broj funkcija koje treba da obavljaju...

[Meho Krljic]

Majkrosoft je najavio da - ukida MSN mesindžer. 31. Oktobra. Naravno, ova stvar je jako stara (15 godina), temeljito prevaziđena i, naravno, Majkrosoft sad ima Skajp, ali siguran sam da će ovo mnogim balkanskim ljubavnicima biti trenutak da se sa suzama u očima prisete svih devojaka (ili bar muškaraca sa ženskim nikovima) sa kojima su vodili vrele konverzacije putem Majkrosoftove čet-platforme 

[Meho Krljic]

Da bude jasne koje su razmere Majkrosoftovog očajanja, naredni Windows će se zvati...




...Windows 10.

Tako je, preskaču devetku da bi naglasili koliko je novi OS unapređen u odnosu na osmicu...

[Nightflier]

Makar da su imali muda pa da se zove Windows X...

[Father Jape]

Dobro, nije baš toliko unapređen.

[Nightflier]

"Unapređen" i "Windows" TAKO ne idu u istu rečenicu...

[Truba]

XP zakon

[divča]

Disko 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmhCxX-ncdQ

[Meho Krljic]

Inače, nije da Majkrosoftovo numerisanje verzija windowsa ima ikakvu konzistentnu logiku. Jedan komentar sa slešdota:

How would you possibly try to figure out Microsoft's numbering, anyway?  Their version numbers go from 3 to 95, jumps to 98, 2000, then goes to the lettering, ME and  XP (are those roman numerals?).  Then in goes to Vista.  Now, lets be fair.  95 and 98 are the years, so let's just count.  So 95 is version 4, 98 is version 5, 2000 is version 6, ME is version 8, XP is version 9, and Vista is version 10.  So next comes 11, right?  Nope, version 7. Ok, but some of those were professional builds, right?  So let's just start from NT v4 and count major NT releases.  2000 is version 5, XP is version 6, Vista is version 7, and... wait.
Wait, wait, I know, let's look at Microsoft's internal versioning numbers.  NTv4 is version 4, 2000 is version 5, XP is version 5.1, Vista is version 6.  Ok this is making sense, because next version after vista (v6) should be 7, right?  Nope, Windows 7's internal version number is v6.1.  Windows 8 is version 6.2.  WTF?

[Meho Krljic]

Eh... tako je to u majkrosoftu... Valjda je očekivan kliše da će CEO indijskog porekla zazvati karmu u najnezgodnijem momentu  Posle kad je video da je pojo gomno, Nadella se ispravio...

Microsoft CEO Says Women Shouldn't Ask for Raises, Will Instead Magically Receive Them via 'Karma'

Ladies, take note: A male leader of one of the most prominent tech companies in America would prefer that you hold your tongue about your paycheck.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said as much to an audience of women in the tech industry Thursday afternoon, ReadWrite reports. He made the remarks while being interviewed onstage at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
"For women who aren't comfortable asking for a raise, what's your advice for them?" Maria Klawe, a computer scientist who is a member of Microsoft's board of directors, asked.
"It's not really about asking for a raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will give you the right raise," he told Klawe (who, presumably, was screaming inside). He went on to further imply that there was an incalculable je ne sais quoi about a woman who never asks for what she truly wants.
"That might be one of the initial 'super powers' that, quite frankly, women (who) don't ask for a raise have," he said. "It's good karma. It will come back."
Audience members were immediately jarred, taking to Twitter to express their frustration.




"Thank god @MariaKlawe was there to give good advice about raises @ghc," one attendee, Andrea Barrica, tweeted, which the Grace Hopper Celebration account itself then retweeted.
The American Association of University Women recently reported in a comprehensive study that in 2013, full-time year-round female workers were paid 78 percent of what men were paid.
To top it off, Microsoft revealed its diversity numbers last week, showing that just 17.1 percent of its tech-related workforce is female. That's only slightly better than the national average. According to the National Center for Women & Information Technology, women made up 26 percent of the computing workforce in 2013.
One wonders why.
UPDATE: Nadella clarified his opinions on Twitter, saying, "Was inarticulate re how women should ask for raise. Our industry must close gender pay gap so a raise is not needed because of a bias #GHC14."



Check out the full video of Nadella's conversation with Klawe.
UPDATE 8:24 p.m.: Nadella followed up his remarks on Twitter with a staff-wide email that was also posted on Microsoft's press website. "I answered that question completely wrong," he wrote. "Without a doubt I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work." He added, "If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask."
Nadella concluded that he'd "certainly learned a valuable lesson."

[Meho Krljic]

Ne znam da li ste svesni da je Majkrosoft juče prestao sa prodajom Windowsa 7 i 8?


http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/10/31/windows-8-windows-7-sales-end/?partner=yahootix

[Perin]

Ja sam, bogami, kupio za poslovni laptop Windows 8, 18 dolara.

[Meho Krljic]

Da li da otvorimo novu temu za Windows 10?? Dok razmišljamo, evo sižea:


The next generation of Windows: Windows 10


Windows 10's Big Step Back Is Actually a Huge Step Forward


From Halo, to Phone, to PC, Cortana is Windows' Digital Assistant

Microsoft's AR Experiment Is Called Windows Holographic

[дејан]

овај последњи линк, мало опширније виа http://techcrunch.com/

Microsoft's New Holographic Nerd Helmet Is Awesome

[дејан]

и како би то отприлике требало д'изгледа:

Microsoft HoloLens - Transform your world with holograms

[Meho Krljic]

Bizarno je koliko Majkrosoft svesno i, reklo bi se, podlo koristi termin hologram da opiše nešto što apsolutno nije hologram  Kao što ovo nije virtual reality tehnologija već augmented reality. Ali simpatično je.

[Perin]

Ja sam instalirao Windows 10 na laptopu, i moram priznati jednu,  a to su ove dve stvari - čini se dobrim Windowsom,  ali isto tako Windows 10 je u stvari baš dobro ispeglana i popravljena Windows 8mica.

Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk

[Perin]

A kad smo kod Windows 10>

http://www.pcgamer.com/windows-10-upgrade-free-for-owners-of-windows-7-and-81/

[Meho Krljic]

A kad smo već kod Windowsa 10 - on još nije ni izašao a Majkrosoft, sledeći Nadelinu najavu da će se iteracije operativnog sistema sada brže pojavljivati, već najavljuje njegovog, ne baš naslednika, ali uznapredovalijeg potomka. Kodno ime za narednu verziju Windowsa, najavljenu negde za narednu godinu je Redstone, što, igrači znaju, očigledno predstavlja aluziju na Minecraft, najpopularniju PC igru na svetu a čiji je Majkrosoft od prošle godine vlasnik. Redstone je jedan od gradivnih materijala u igri.

[Meho Krljic]

Saznalo se i kako će se zvanično zvati naslednik Internet Explorera. Ono što se šifrovano zvalo "Project Spartan" zvaće se u konačnoj verziji: Microsoft Edge. I "zamagliće razliku između kreacije i konzumpcije". Baš da vidimo.

[Meho Krljic]

Windows 10 će imati "staggered release", dakle, izlaziće platformu po platformu a i neće imati sve funkcije u početku ni na jednoj. Biće to musavo, reklo bi se...

[Meho Krljic]

A kad smo već kod Windowsa 10 - on još nije ni izašao a Majkrosoft, sledeći Nadelinu najavu da će se iteracije operativnog sistema sada brže pojavljivati, već najavljuje njegovog, ne baš naslednika, ali uznapredovalijeg potomka. Kodno ime za narednu verziju Windowsa, najavljenu negde za narednu godinu je Redstone, što, igrači znaju, očigledno predstavlja aluziju na Minecraft, najpopularniju PC igru na svetu a čiji je Majkrosoft od prošle godine vlasnik. Redstone je jedan od gradivnih materijala u igri.

U suprotnim vestima, sada se veli da će Windows 10 biti poslednja verzija Windosa ikad i da će daji razvoj ići kroz inkrementalno unapređivanje ove verzije. Sreća pa kod njih leva ruka zna šta radi desna 

[Meho Krljic]

Microsoft explains what you'll lose by upgrading to Windows 10

[дејан]

а у другим вестима једно вероватно обашњење откуд уопште број 10 (а не 9)
и преглед онога што 10ка нуди

[zakk]

korisno:

http://superuser.com/questions/922068/how-to-disable-the-get-windows-10-icon-shown-in-the-notification-area-tray

[Meho Krljic]

Zahvaljujemo!!!!!!!

[Meho Krljic]

'Free' Windows 10 Now Looks A Terrible Deal

[Meho Krljic]

Windows 10 je pušten u divljinu, pa onda:

Windows 10: The Gizmodo Review

Ali i ovo:
RIP Microsoft Solitaire, 1990-2015

[tomat]

apdejtovao se sinoć sa Win7 na Win10, za sada ne primećujem neko nazadovanje, mada je još rano.

[Meho Krljic]

Ovi iz Mirkosofta stvarno da se roknu...
Windows 10 Forced Updates Causing Endless Crash Loops

I think we can now all agree: Microsoft MSFT +0.3%'s hardline policy on Windows 10's forced updates is silly. Very silly. Since launching nine days ago Windows Update has sent out an unstable graphics driver which switched off monitors, a buggy security patch which corrupted Windows Explorer and there are now a number of reports that a third update is causing Window 10 machines to crash over and over again...

The patch in question is KB3081424 (ironically enough a roll-up of bug fixes) and during its update process affected users find it fails and triggers the message: "We couldn't complete the updates, undoing the changes." Undoing them results in a mandatory system reboot, but as soon as the user logs back on Windows 10's update process kicks in and tries to install KB3081424 again.

I'm sure you're way ahead of me here, but since Windows 10 updates cannot be stopped KB3081424 tries to install over and over again which leaves systems caught in endless reboot loops.

Read more – Windows 10: Should You Upgrade?

Why wouldn't KB3081424 eventually install correctly? Because the initial failed install has been found to create a bad entry in the Windows 10 registry which stops its subsequent attempts to reinstall from working correctly.

What To Do?
The good news is, despite Windows 10's best efforts, some industrious users have found a temporary fix to get rid of this bad registry entry. So before KB3081424 tries to install again quickly follow these instructions: 

   
• Type "regedit" in the Start menu
• In the window that opens navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
• Backup your registry key as what you're about to do is risky (with ProfileList highlighted, click File and Export and choose a backup name)
• Then scan through the ProfileList IDs and delete any with ProfileImagePath found in it as it shouldn't be there
• Close regedit, reboot and next time KB3081424 should install properly

This method should clear out the bad registry entry and since not every user is impacted by the KB3081424 bug, the odds are on your side that it will be second time lucky now the bad reg entry has gone.

And no, at the time of writing, sadly the tool Microsoft released to stop certain updates from reinstalling does not work with this patch. Hopefully that will change soon along with a Microsoft official comment on the problem and its plans for a fix.

All of which teaches a valuable lesson...

Give Users Options

What KB3081424, like the Nvidia bug and broken security patch before it, demonstrates is Windows Update is far from a flawless entity. Three troubled updates in nine days may be extreme but there have still been "40 or so" Windows Updates which have caused problems during 2015 alone.

As such Microsoft's track record has not earned it the right to force every update – big or small – upon users. Yes, users can opt for "Fast" or "Slow" rings for feature and driver updates (that equates to a one month delay for Windows 10 Home users on the latter) but security updates are immediate and unstoppable. And security updates have a worst track record than feature and driver updates.

All of which means not giving Windows 10 users at least the option to disable individual updates should a bad update appear (they can gladly stay on by default) is totally impractical.
Both KB3081424 and the Nvidia bug pushed users into an endless loop of crashes and reboots and with Windows 10 expected to reach one billion devices over its lifetime, the stakes are too high to expect Microsoft to perfectly vet every update on every potential combination of hardware to which it will be exposed.
To which I conclude:

Dear Microsoft, your intentions with Windows 10's automatic updates are noble. An up-to-date PC is much better than a neglected PC and I recognise the ideal you are striving towards. But it isn't realistic, bad updates happen.

Users need the power to be able to protect themselves from a bad update until you deliver the fixes. I'd like to point out this actually buys you more time to deliver better fixes without rushing. After all KB3081424 was a cumulative patch for existing bugs which actually caused worse problems than it was fixing.

Windows 10 is a wonderful step forward, you're back on your game after Windows 8 so please don't ruin it through pig headed policies. A gracious u-turn now is better than a forced one later on. Think about it.

[Meho Krljic]

Windows 10's privacy policy is the new normal

Big data and machine learning are going to be used everywhere, even our operating systems.

Windows 10, in normal usage and typical configurations, will send quite a lot of information to Microsoft. Windows 8, in normal usage and typical configurations, will also send quite a lot of information to Microsoft. On the other side of the fence, OS X, in normal usage and typical configurations, will send some information to Apple. It's hard to imagine a modern day operating system that doesn't do this, at least to some extent.
For example, Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android all sport app stores. Buying from those app stores requires payment information, typically including a name, address, and credit card number. Those stores may have age-based restrictions, so might require a date of birth. Those purchases are, of course, tracked, to both ensure that developers get paid and that popularity lists can be constructed.
Different platforms have different twists on this. The iOS App Store, for example, can show you apps that are popular nearby; it must be recording some location data when purchases are made so it can make this correlation. Windows 10 goes in a different direction. It includes personalized "Picks for you" and can suggest particular apps, based on their similarity to apps that have been previously installed. This currently doesn't seem very intelligent; it will sometimes recommend apps that are already installed.
Continuing evolution It's probably fair to say that Windows 10 goes further in this kind of thing than previous operating systems. But it does so not as an outlier or some major break from past behaviors, but as a next step in a continuous process of making operating systems more connected, and to make data collection and analysis more extensive.
Some of this is an obvious repercussion of user-facing features. Windows and OS X both offer search (in Windows through Cortana, in OS X through Spotlight) that spans both the local system and online. Naturally, the online portion of that search is sent to the respective company.
Similarly, Siri and Cortana use online systems for their speech recognition. Siri maintains personalized but anonymous speech data on each user to improve speech recognition accuracy.
Cortana similarly personalizes speech models; corrections made to her transcriptions are used to adjust speech models and improve dictation accuracy. Perhaps more contentiously, information about appointments and contacts' names and nicknames is also incorporated into these models so that Cortana can better recognize the people and events that you're talking about.
Windows uses similar personalization systems for both handwriting (using a stylus) and typing. This is used to improve text recognition algorithms so that more handwriting is recognized, and so that autocomplete can make more relevant suggestions. Microsoft regards these personalization features as so important that you can't use Cortana without them. Apple, similarly, makes Siri's personalization an integral part of the service that can't be disabled without disabling Siri entirely.
There are two common reasons for this kind of data collection. The first is that these services simply need to know these things to be useful. Siri needs to know the names of your contacts to be able to set up calls or send messages. Cortana needs to know when and where your appointments are to tell you when you need to leave the home or office to get to them.
But there's a deeper reason: the software powering these capabilities is fundamentally heuristic, using approximation and guesswork to generate its results. Traditionally this wasn't the case; a hardware keyboard with no autocompletion doesn't need any fancy heuristics, it just needs to directly map key presses to characters. But speech recognition, software keyboards of all kinds, and handwriting recognition don't have this precision. The software driving these things has to construct and evaluate a range of different possible interpretations and then pick a most likely option among those interpretations.
Sometimes that software will pick the wrong interpretation; sometimes it won't even generate the right interpretation at all. Analyzing real-world usage data gives companies like Microsoft and Apple (and Apple's speech recognition provider, Nuance) the opportunity to make their heuristics better. This software is all fundamentally data-driven, and as intelligent systems such as Cortana, Siri, and Google Now become more capable and more advanced, they're going to want to slurp up ever more data.
There are further opt-in features that can expose even more data. Cortana, for example, can read your e-mails to find package tracking numbers and flight bookings, which she can then tell you about. This is an opt-in feature, and it means that Cortana will read your e-mails. This e-mail reading appears to occur locally, on each device, but Microsoft will still learn at least some things about your e-mail—for each flight or tracking number Cortana finds, she'll query Microsoft's systems to learn more about them. This should be obvious; your phone doesn't know whether a flight is delayed or just how lost your package has gotten, so naturally online services have to be queried.
The power of the cloud One of the most important online services in wide use is essentially crowd-sourced: location. Microsoft, Google, Apple, and no doubt others, operate location services. While GPS provides a way for devices to figure out where they are without sending any data, all three companies have built systems that allow for location to be determined without GPS; instead, they use the IDs of Wi-Fi networks that a phone or computer can see.
These databases were often primed using data collected by street view camera cars—itself a contentious practice—but is further extended and updated using data collected and sent by end-users' phones and PCs: each time a device queries the location service by asking it where the nearby Wi-Fi IDs are, the location service might remember those Wi-Fi IDs and their inferred location.
This is very useful, but obviously has privacy implications: the online service providers can track which devices are making which requests, which devices are near which Wi-Fi networks, and feasibly might be able to track how devices move around. The service providers will all claim that the data is anonymized, and that no persistent tracking is performed... but it almost certainly could be.
Indeed, that same "useful but with privacy implications" trade-off is the recurring theme of modern systems. Siri, Cortana, Google Now—they're all useful. But they have privacy implications. Syncing files to OneDrive or Google Drive is useful, but it creates some privacy exposure. Using a Microsoft Account to log in to Windows, sync settings between PCs, and have access to the same apps, or using a Google account to log in to ChromeOS, for the same benefits, are both useful things, but they carry a privacy trade-off.
These trade-offs can bite people. Microsoft, in common with most other American online service providers, will generally comply with court orders demanding data and will cooperate with police investigations. Google, for example, has contacted the FBI when its algorithm detected that a user of its Picasa photo service had uploaded child pornography, and Microsoft performs similar analysis of files on OneDrive. Microsoft received a torrent of bad press when it revealed that it had looked through a Hotmail user's inbox while investigating piracy of Microsoft's own software, though since then the company has promised to hand over such investigations to law enforcement forces rather than conducting them internally.
One of the more contentious aspects of this is that Windows 10, like Windows 8 before it, has the ability to encrypt hard disks and back up the encryption keys to OneDrive (or, for corporate machines that are part of a Windows domain, Active Directory). This capability is not mandatory; while some have claimed that the only way to enable encryption without storing keys in OneDrive is to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, this is untrue. If you want to put the backup key onto a USB drive instead of storing it online, that's possible.
This is, once again, a trade-off. Drive encryption has some value, especially on laptops, but it also has some risk; lost keys often mean lost data. For average home users, having an online key backup may well be a sensible risk/reward trade-off; the potential loss of privacy if a key is seized or stolen from OneDrive and subsequently used to decrypt their hard disk is likely outweighed by the extra protection that disk encryption provides. The default scheme may make your data less private if you're concerned about government seizure of your assets, but arguably more private if you're concerned about a crackhead stealing your laptop.
Windows 10 lets you opt out of these things if you prefer, but it's a less capable, less useful platform if you do—just as iOS, Android, ChromeOS, and even OS X become less useful if you disable every part of their online cloud service connectivity. This is a trend that isn't going to go away.
One other facet of modern-day computing is perhaps a little less welcome, but equally likely to be a fixture. Like Windows 8 and iOS, Windows 10 includes a persistent, anonymous advertiser ID. This advertising ID, which is enabled by default but can be turned off, is exposed to in-app advertisers to track your activity and in principle show ads that are more relevant to your interest. Turn it off and you'll get untargeted ads. The privacy concerns here are much the same as cookies on the Web; marginally better ads, at the expense of giving advertisers a somewhat better idea of the things that you're interested in.
A surprising change There is one setting in Windows 10 that's a little more unusual, however. Windows has long had the capability to report basic usage data to Microsoft. This includes, for example, data about any programs or drivers that crash, so that Microsoft can detect any widespread problems. This facility has also included the ability to optionally send more detailed crash reports to the company. These optional reports can potentially include snapshots of the memory being used by processes, and these snapshots can include personal data. So far, so ordinary; OS X and other operating systems have a similar capability, and many applications have equivalent reporting facilities implemented at the app level. The data that these facilities can collect can be invaluable for detecting problems and developing fixes.
On top of this, many Microsoft programs, including Windows itself, have a thing called the Customer Experience Improvement Program. This is, traditionally, an opt-in program. When enabled, Microsoft collects various kinds of usage information. For the operating system, this might include, say, which programs are installed, how often each Control Panel is used, or what the preferred settings for Explorer windows are. For an application, it might include, say, which menu items are used most often, how many documents are opened simultaneously, or whatever else might be appropriate.
Microsoft asserts that the information collected is anonymous (tied to a randomly generated Id rather than any personal identifier), and filtered to remove any personal information it might accidentally collect. It also promises that the information collected from these schemes will only be used for diagnosis and development, never for advertising or sales.
Windows 10, however, shakes this up. Instead of two separate systems—one for error reporting, a second for collecting usage data—both have been rolled into one combined setting. This setting has four positions: off; basic error reporting and simple device capability reporting; enhanced diagnostic tracking that extends the basic information with more detailed error reporting, and usage telemetry; and full data, that adds process memory snapshots to the enhanced data. This means that there's no way to participate in error reporting without also participating in usage tracking, and vice versa.
Further, the "off" option is only available in Windows 10 Enterprise. The common home user versions of Windows, Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro, always collect (and report) at least "Basic" level information and no way to turn off the feature entirely.
The genuine privacy implications of this seem slight, but for those who absolutely do not want to send anything to Microsoft, Windows 10 is certainly a regression. Is Microsoft poring over this data, trying to sniff out the details of Windows users' lives and figure out all their secrets? It's highly unlikely—but the removal of the ability to turn off this reporting is nonetheless strange, and there's no clear reason for it.
Microsoft describes its data collection and usage policies on its privacy page. Some of the descriptions are a little fuzzy, though overall the page gives a clearer idea of what Windows 10 and other services collect, and why.
But the broad pattern is clear. The days of mainstream operating systems that don't integrate cloud services, that don't exploit machine learning and big data, that don't let developers know which features are used and what problems occur, are behind us, and they're not coming back. This may cost us some amount of privacy, but we'll tend to get something in return: software that can do more things and that works better. For many of us the benefits of these design decisions will be worth it. Those who think they aren't will continue to have to hunt through options to turn these features off... if they can.

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