Re: Windows 10

["Paul Breeze" dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "paul.breeze" for DMARC)]

Hello Flash

At the moment Windows 10 is in a virtual machine with the network 
connection disabled so it cannot talk to anybody.  However I am aware of 
some of these issues and if I eventually decide to use it will certainly 
be looking to limit its ability to do what it wants.  For the moment 
this is just an exploratory venture but if I discover anything useful re 
Xy I will post.


Best wishes

Paul

On 22/12/2017 12:47, flash wrote:


Greetings Paul,

I do not know a simple way to circumvent the inquisition before you
get to actually use the OS. Be advised that the default position is
for any and all apps to phone home and report usage to MS; you have to
explicitly de-activate the function for each app separately, as far as
I can tell at this juncture.

MS claims that the information is anonymized. Be advised that several
studies have demonstrated that it is ridiculously easy to un-anonymize
the information, which is to say, to identify you personally starting
from your IP address, which leads down a virtual rabbit-hole from your
service provider to your name, home address, phone number, date of
birth, etc. etc.

Be advised that MS mandates mandatory updates in Win10. Google the
string "how to stop Win10 auto update" to see a list of links how to
stop it. Or visit my own page on how to put a stop to it:

http://www.flashq.de/win10-stop-updates.html

Do let me know how you get on with XY in Win 10. I presume some sort
of virtual DOS environment is required. Simply double-clicking on the
editor.exe file triggered an error message on my Win10 machine.