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Windows 10: Happy with Anniversary Update?

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Windows 10 Anniversary Update - More Privacy Implications.

The RTM Anniversary Update switches back on Privacy settings that have been explicitly set to 'off' before the upgrade. In particular - sharing your Contacts with Xbox and turning back on the 'Sharing Contacts' global switch. (and once shared you can't ask for them back, i.e. Skype)

Typical Microsoft, if the malware like 'Express Settings' weren't bad enough in terms of Privacy, now you can't even rely on settings you've explicitly set to 'off' to remain set between upgrades.

This was an in-place upgrade, keeping user files, via 1607 Anniversary ISO. It works but its pretty slow to upgrade this way, much slowr than previous Win7->Win10.

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