From Slashdot:
Windows Telemetry Rolls Out
Last week came the warning, now comes the roll out. One of the most most controversial aspects of Windows 10 is coming to Windows 7 and 8. Microsoft has released upgrades which enable the company to track what a user is doing. The updates – KB3075249, KB3080149 and KB3068708 – all add "customer experience and diagnostic telemetry" to the older versions. gHacks points out that the updates will ignore any previous user preferences reporting: "These four updates ignore existing user preferences stored in Windows 7 and Windows 8 (including any edits made to the Hosts file) and immediately starts exchanging user data with vortex-win.data.microsoft.com and settings-win.data.microsoft.com."
I wonder how long it will be before someone writes a little app that will uninstall and block these (as well as KB3035583 which is the annoying Free Win10 icon in your system tray)
Like I said, time to start installing Linux. I have it running on three systems already - my music and my photo systems are windows specific but they do not need the internet so will stay as they are.
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