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Windows 10: What's coming in 2016?

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Win10 is the "Treadstone upgrade"... It wasn't so long ago that we had this...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/23/nsa_germany_windows_8/

"A machine that contains a Trusted Platform Module and runs software adhering to the Trusted Computing specifications is, arguably, under the control of the vendor – in this case Microsoft. It also identifies the machine to the vendor, meaning that users' identities can be linked to their machines as well as their online activities. As Redmond is a US firm, opponents to the protocols argue, users' data is theoretically accessible to US spooks in the National Security Agency via the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as Die Zeit points out."

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