

Microsoft advised me to turn off activity reporting in my account’s Family section if I did not want to receive such e-mails. Today I got a creepy-ass email from Microsoft titled ‘Weekly activity report for ’, including which websites he’s visited, how many hours per day he’s used it, and how many minutes he used each of his favorite apps. «This weekend we upgraded my 14-year-old son’s laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 10. Although, nothing has changed after the release: even more complaints have risen. Microsoft experimented on the new product’s operation with various configurations and users acted as beta-testers. At the time this issue was pinned on diagnostics and statistics collected for software debugging. Windows 10 creates a considerable amount of internet traffic even if there are no web applications running whatsoever. The first reports of new Windows’ strange behavior have emerged as early as the technical preview was delivered. Neither the editorial staff nor the the author bear any responsibility for any damage caused by the intervention in the OS performance.

We will try to look into complaints of espionage manners of Windows 10 and find out what data it sneaks and where it sends it.Īll the information was obtained through author’s personal research and is published for educational purposes. The data flows in rivers to dozens of servers belonging to Microsoft and its partner companies. Right after being installed it starts acting weird. Now the OS itself seems to have become one big trojan. Since its rise Windows was a natural habitat for all kinds of malware.
