Posts by thtechnologist 19 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Apr 2015
Agreed, it means nothing. This is based on my own path through life, but I have seen 0 of these anywhere. I also have a family full of Apple fanbois, about 35 that no other tech exists but istuff, and 0 of them even want this, let alone have one. I have seen more pebbles and AW watches.
Power users that hate MS for whatever reasons are the only ones "worried" about basic telemetry data, the average user does not know, or care, at all, ever. I am practically ostracized by MY FAMILY who call me a tinfoilhatist because I tell them facebook, gmail, etc. is unsafe to use. Users have spoken, they want convenience and a company to just take care of their stuff, in exchange for privacy. The fact that facebook adoption isn't falling indicated clearly no one cares. Only power users care, and MS does not need us anymore.
The general populace does not care, or cannot understand why they should care. If they did, there would be no Facebook, Google would have died as well. In some cases, it is a hindrance in life. I have interviewed a couple places where they, "don't trust anyone without a Facebook account," because they "wonder what you are hiding."
You are assuming more than 1% of people care, and that's a high estimate I think. People have to care first, that's the first step.
Windows 10 is the fastest adopted OS of all time, as of stories breaking today. People are willing to make the trade it seems. I have people at work badgering me every few days, "When is the update coming"
Corporate isn't going anywhere, they can get a garden inside the garden. A corp can easily publish their own apps, and whitelist / blacklist anything else in the store. Broken device? Give the user a new one and have them login to the store and corporate ms account. All apps and data files restored. We are testing this at a MAJOR gov't agency and are looking to deploy before the end of the year.
As long as I can "sideload" anything I want, they can do what they will with the store. It seems that people like a single place to get software these days anyway.
Are people really still having issues with app dependancies and "vomit" all over the system? I haven't dealt with any issues like that in YEARS while supporting a few thousand users in several environments in that time.
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