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Windows 10: Happy with Anniversary Update?

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Re: FUD - not just for Microsoft anymore

Not FUD at all, that's what it (1607 Anniversary Update) does, it switches back on global 'Share Contacts' switch, adds Xbox to the sharing mix, even after it has been explicitly turned off prior to the update, that's a no-no, as Privacy standards go.

There has to be some standards when writing software, if Microsoft want to rummage through black bins and gutter for information, in effect what they are doing, then people need to know about it.

As far as Cortana goes, if it was switched off before the upgrade it remains off after (in terms of the search box at least), so there is some FUD there, but regards Privacy settings, it shows vigilance is needed.

Privacy settings need to be rechecked after every major MS upgrade. This is not the first time this has happened, 1511 ISOs had to be pulled for a similar failure of preserving Privacy settings.

A bit of a Microsoft theme? Oh, just a mistake. Its the classic Facebook approach, peel back the Onion layer by layer, until your Privacy is exposed, and you don't get it back, as those contacts are then up in the cloud.

And yes, its a lot easier to avoid this type of deceptive shit if you use a variant of Linux. Thanks for confirming that.

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