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Microsoft to launch Windows 10 on July 29

Damn Windows 10 already

My Mobile has Windows 8.1 so will they offer windows 10 on that? as well as laptop.... :P
Join as tester and depends on ur phone model if it is upgradable to win 10 . Mine is and works fine but still no apps .

Try
My GPU doesnt have DX12 support yet lol....
on top of that it's from nvidia.

So the #1 PERK of windows 10 (DX12) won't be there for me....
Try linux mint it rocks. Secure and fast

says who! WP is much better than langroid and Isuck OS


fear mongering at its worst. MS is providing full upgrade to all windows 8 phones released in 2012 ! while android hardly support even flagships beyond 1and half year!
Windows sucks big time
I have been using win 10 on my lumia . Its crap . I totally agree with the article increasingly difficult to recomend a windows phone. No apps . Built wise nokia is great but on the software side it really lets you down

I have very high expectation from Microsoft on this one, heard this one's going to be awesome !!


Windows 8 and 8.1 really sucked tbh.
Dont wait to be surprised coz microsoft is dependable after all so win10 will suck big yime as well

i think windows mobiles are very good then android in battery performance, speedy working and no lagging thats why windows phones don't need bigger rams.:-)
My lumia920 battery is not very good .what kind of ph u using

Yes, and you can enjoy the beta version too until the final version comes out by signing up windows insider program.


This is propaganda news.
Don't be surprised if big companies currently using android move towards MS 10 mobile in near future.
The next best use for Androids will be to keep your kids happy.
Wont be surprised if windows goes the same way as blackberry . Remember the darling of corporate culture. Now nobody even rembers it . Rip
 
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My GPU doesnt have DX12 support yet lol....
on top of that it's from nvidia.

So the #1 PERK of windows 10 (DX12) won't be there for me....
Dont worry older systems might get some emulator support , but downside is that performance will lag.
 
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Microsoft will sooner or later shutdown mobile unit. They are writing off the nokia acquisition.

Microsoft To Fire 7800 Employees; Write off $7.8B In Nokia Deal As Part of ‘Restructuring’ Their Mobile Business
Future Plans?
This step is a clear indication that Microsoft will not push for their Windows based mobile phone business, but rather concentrate on building an eco-system of their application and hardware. As of now, Windows based phones account for only 3% of global market, and their market share is not showing any signs of improvement in near future with Android and iOS firmly establishing their presence.

After using one of microsofts early version (7.1 and mango release), have decided never to buy microsoft one again. Nokia hardware is superb, but their microsoft mobile OS sucks big time. No large application eco system, small features taken for granted like copy-paste was missing in initial release. Then the usual trick of not giving SD card slot and not able to save contacts into sim.

Lumia is good hardware from nokia, sadly it will soon fade away. If Nokia had android .......:-)


Yes , they are fast and dont eat up ram like android. Reason is I believe is because it is a monolithic OS whereas android is like micro service.
But microsoft does not open up much apis unlike android. So not many thirdparty apps to kill the OS or make it slow.

Nokia is an excellent phone and cheap too. Its hardware and build quality is amazing. Its misfortune. Its wed to Microsoft.

To get an Windows 10 upgrade, you have to go through s tough process to activate its app on your laptop. I just dont understand why Microsoft makes things so difficult?

Microsoft lost touch with consumers long time ago. I m on Windows only because some software related to work, functions only with Windows.

I m seriously thinking switching to Apple for personal computing. Apple never has a virus, never crashes and it has superb hardware.
 
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I m seriously thinking switching to Apple for personal computing. Apple never has a virus, never crashes and it has superb hardware.

Not crash? nope they do crash but very few times. Superb hardware ? Atheisticly yes but technically no, you can get better hard ware for the same price. Mac air is going to cost you around 900$ for which you can get midlevel good gaming laptop.

By the way mac now a days comes only with SSD , good thing about it is not only fast but i contents like in notepad or browser ( might be browser support) gets automatically saved. Any time os/app crashes ( sometimes) i get back the contents when i restart the laptop.
 
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Not crash? nope they do crash but very few times. Superb hardware ? Atheisticly yes but technically no, you can get better hard ware for the same price. Mac air is going to cost you around 900$ for which you can get midlevel good gaming laptop.

By the way mac now a days comes only with SSD , good thing about it is not only fast but i contents like in notepad or browser ( might be browser support) gets automatically saved. Any time os/app crashes ( sometimes) i get back the contents when i restart the laptop.

Macs are the rolls royce of the laptop world.
 
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How do I upgrade to released final version? I had download the preview version and it still says evaluation copy. I thought I ll get a taskbar notification to update it to final. Any thoughts what I need to do to get rid of eval. copy and get the final release?
 
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Windows 10 spies on you by default


windows-10-spies-on-you-by-default-1438411301-1379.jpg


NEW YORK - Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system is immensely popular with, with 14 million downloads in just two days, but the price of the free upgrade may just be a user’s privacy, though, as changing Windows 10’s intrusive default settings is difficult, according to Russia Today channel.


While the upgrade is currently free of charge to owners of licensed copies of Windows 8 and Windows 7, it does come at a price. Several tech bloggers have warned that the privacy settings in the operating system are invasive by default, and that changing them involves over a dozen different screens and an external website.


According to Zach Epstein of BGR News, all of Windows 10’s features that could be considered invasions of privacy are enabled by default. Signing in with the Microsoft email account means Windows is reading a user’s emails, contacts and calendar data.


“I am pretty surprised by the far-reaching data collection that Microsoft seems to want,” web developer Jonathan Porta wrote on his blog. “I am even more surprised by the fact that the settings all default to incredibly intrusive. I am certain that most individuals will just accept the defaults and have no idea how much information they are giving away.”


As examples, Porta cited Microsoft having access to contacts, calendar details, and “other associated input data” such as “typing and inking” by default. The operating system also wants access to user locations and location history, both of which could be provided not just to Microsoft, but to its “trusted partners”.


“Who are the trusted partners? By whom are they trusted? I am certainly not the one doing any trusting right now,” Porta wrote, describing the default privacy options as “vague and bordering on scary”.


Alec Meer of the ‘Rock, Paper, Shotgun’ blog pointed out this passage in Microsoft’s 12,000-word, 45-page terms of use agreement: “We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.”


While most people are used to ads as the price of accessing free content, writes Meer, Microsoft is not making it clear enough that they are “gathering and storing vast amounts of data on your computing habits,” not just browser data.


Opting out of all these default settings requires navigating 13 different screens and a separate website, the bloggers have found. Meer was underwhelmed with Microsoft executives’ claims of transparency and easily understandable terms of use. “There is no world in which 45 pages of policy documents and opt-out settings split across 13 different Settings screens and an external website constitutes real transparency,” he wrote.


Tracking and harvesting user data has been a business model for many tech giants. Privacy advocates have raised concerns over Google’s combing of emails, Apple’s Siri, and Facebook’s tracking cookies that keep monitoring people’s browser activity in order to personalise advertising and content.

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Windows 10 spies on you by default


windows-10-spies-on-you-by-default-1438411301-1379.jpg


NEW YORK - Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system is immensely popular with, with 14 million downloads in just two days, but the price of the free upgrade may just be a user’s privacy, though, as changing Windows 10’s intrusive default settings is difficult, according to Russia Today channel.


While the upgrade is currently free of charge to owners of licensed copies of Windows 8 and Windows 7, it does come at a price. Several tech bloggers have warned that the privacy settings in the operating system are invasive by default, and that changing them involves over a dozen different screens and an external website.


According to Zach Epstein of BGR News, all of Windows 10’s features that could be considered invasions of privacy are enabled by default. Signing in with the Microsoft email account means Windows is reading a user’s emails, contacts and calendar data.


“I am pretty surprised by the far-reaching data collection that Microsoft seems to want,” web developer Jonathan Porta wrote on his blog. “I am even more surprised by the fact that the settings all default to incredibly intrusive. I am certain that most individuals will just accept the defaults and have no idea how much information they are giving away.”


As examples, Porta cited Microsoft having access to contacts, calendar details, and “other associated input data” such as “typing and inking” by default. The operating system also wants access to user locations and location history, both of which could be provided not just to Microsoft, but to its “trusted partners”.


“Who are the trusted partners? By whom are they trusted? I am certainly not the one doing any trusting right now,” Porta wrote, describing the default privacy options as “vague and bordering on scary”.


Alec Meer of the ‘Rock, Paper, Shotgun’ blog pointed out this passage in Microsoft’s 12,000-word, 45-page terms of use agreement: “We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.”


While most people are used to ads as the price of accessing free content, writes Meer, Microsoft is not making it clear enough that they are “gathering and storing vast amounts of data on your computing habits,” not just browser data.


Opting out of all these default settings requires navigating 13 different screens and a separate website, the bloggers have found. Meer was underwhelmed with Microsoft executives’ claims of transparency and easily understandable terms of use. “There is no world in which 45 pages of policy documents and opt-out settings split across 13 different Settings screens and an external website constitutes real transparency,” he wrote.


Tracking and harvesting user data has been a business model for many tech giants. Privacy advocates have raised concerns over Google’s combing of emails, Apple’s Siri, and Facebook’s tracking cookies that keep monitoring people’s browser activity in order to personalise advertising and content.

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Everyone is spying on you from google to Facebook to twitter. So Microsoft is not some odd man out. By the way, I liked Windows 10. The new browser is good. The start button is back. Over all a good release.
 
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Windows 10 spies on you by default


windows-10-spies-on-you-by-default-1438411301-1379.jpg


NEW YORK - Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system is immensely popular with, with 14 million downloads in just two days, but the price of the free upgrade may just be a user’s privacy, though, as changing Windows 10’s intrusive default settings is difficult, according to Russia Today channel.


While the upgrade is currently free of charge to owners of licensed copies of Windows 8 and Windows 7, it does come at a price. Several tech bloggers have warned that the privacy settings in the operating system are invasive by default, and that changing them involves over a dozen different screens and an external website.


According to Zach Epstein of BGR News, all of Windows 10’s features that could be considered invasions of privacy are enabled by default. Signing in with the Microsoft email account means Windows is reading a user’s emails, contacts and calendar data.


“I am pretty surprised by the far-reaching data collection that Microsoft seems to want,” web developer Jonathan Porta wrote on his blog. “I am even more surprised by the fact that the settings all default to incredibly intrusive. I am certain that most individuals will just accept the defaults and have no idea how much information they are giving away.”


As examples, Porta cited Microsoft having access to contacts, calendar details, and “other associated input data” such as “typing and inking” by default. The operating system also wants access to user locations and location history, both of which could be provided not just to Microsoft, but to its “trusted partners”.


“Who are the trusted partners? By whom are they trusted? I am certainly not the one doing any trusting right now,” Porta wrote, describing the default privacy options as “vague and bordering on scary”.


Alec Meer of the ‘Rock, Paper, Shotgun’ blog pointed out this passage in Microsoft’s 12,000-word, 45-page terms of use agreement: “We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.”


While most people are used to ads as the price of accessing free content, writes Meer, Microsoft is not making it clear enough that they are “gathering and storing vast amounts of data on your computing habits,” not just browser data.


Opting out of all these default settings requires navigating 13 different screens and a separate website, the bloggers have found. Meer was underwhelmed with Microsoft executives’ claims of transparency and easily understandable terms of use. “There is no world in which 45 pages of policy documents and opt-out settings split across 13 different Settings screens and an external website constitutes real transparency,” he wrote.


Tracking and harvesting user data has been a business model for many tech giants. Privacy advocates have raised concerns over Google’s combing of emails, Apple’s Siri, and Facebook’s tracking cookies that keep monitoring people’s browser activity in order to personalise advertising and content.

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:coffee: Don't say that u never used an android phone.
 
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Android is doing exactly the same. Download any app and it and it asks to have access to folders, photos etc.
 
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