MS has made it very clear that they want to see and know everything you do and store on a windows computer. They want to mine all that data for their own gain and will use it to profile you and push ads.
They've shown for decades that they don't care about you or your preferences and any settings they might offer today to disable the consumer hostile anti-features they add to windows can be silently removed or reset at any time with a forced update. That's just what it means to use windows.
While MS works to collect as much data about you, your online activities, and your personal files as possible, law enforcement and lawyers are drooling over the thought of being able to get this data from microsoft's servers or off of your hard drive too. This data collection isn't going to go away. It'll only get more and more intrusive and invasive. What little they let you keep locally they still push to get backed up to their cloud servers.
The best thing you can do is avoid using windows wherever and whenever you can.
Windows is currently the most egregious of them, but that's what it means to use a proprietary operating system in general.
> The best thing you can do is avoid using windows wherever and whenever you can.
Take it a step further. The best thing you can do is to avoid using software that you don't control, or software that you can' audit the source code yourself and audit exactly what its doing.
When you're vendor locked in to a proprietary OS, there's nothing stopping the software from turning on you at any given moment. Apple could decide tomorrow they want to start scooping up data like Microsoft, or Google does and there's nothing we can do about it except for not use their stuff.
The button to do this is labeled as "Share screen with Copilot", with an eyeglasses icon, and invokes an interface similar to the ones for screen sharing in Teams and other video meeting apps. It doesn't mention anything explicitly about sending data to Microsoft unless you dig into the fine-print links (feel free to argue among yourselves about whether expecting users to know that "sharing with Copilot" implies "sharing with Microsoft" is reasonable or not).
I don't know what it looks like/how it acts once you actually start a screen sharing session, because it just doesn't work for me (always crashes and restarts the Copilot app). It's labeled as a "Labs" preview, I guess ...
"Copilot Vision is an extension of Microsoft's divisive Recall ..."
Suppose they have some things in common, but these are entirely separate features with entirely separate implementation, UI, and intended use cases.
By the time that happens in 2045 they will have made trillions, and nothing will probably come it other than a million dollar fine that they can pay off in one day’s profit
MS has made it very clear that they want to see and know everything you do and store on a windows computer. They want to mine all that data for their own gain and will use it to profile you and push ads.
They've shown for decades that they don't care about you or your preferences and any settings they might offer today to disable the consumer hostile anti-features they add to windows can be silently removed or reset at any time with a forced update. That's just what it means to use windows.
While MS works to collect as much data about you, your online activities, and your personal files as possible, law enforcement and lawyers are drooling over the thought of being able to get this data from microsoft's servers or off of your hard drive too. This data collection isn't going to go away. It'll only get more and more intrusive and invasive. What little they let you keep locally they still push to get backed up to their cloud servers.
The best thing you can do is avoid using windows wherever and whenever you can.
> That's just what it means to use windows.
Windows is currently the most egregious of them, but that's what it means to use a proprietary operating system in general.
> The best thing you can do is avoid using windows wherever and whenever you can.
Take it a step further. The best thing you can do is to avoid using software that you don't control, or software that you can' audit the source code yourself and audit exactly what its doing.
When you're vendor locked in to a proprietary OS, there's nothing stopping the software from turning on you at any given moment. Apple could decide tomorrow they want to start scooping up data like Microsoft, or Google does and there's nothing we can do about it except for not use their stuff.
> They've shown for decades that they don't care about you or your preferences
Two days ago I turned my home PC (win 10 ltsc) on and my login background was changed. I swear I will install linux the day it auto-updates to win 11
The button to do this is labeled as "Share screen with Copilot", with an eyeglasses icon, and invokes an interface similar to the ones for screen sharing in Teams and other video meeting apps. It doesn't mention anything explicitly about sending data to Microsoft unless you dig into the fine-print links (feel free to argue among yourselves about whether expecting users to know that "sharing with Copilot" implies "sharing with Microsoft" is reasonable or not).
I don't know what it looks like/how it acts once you actually start a screen sharing session, because it just doesn't work for me (always crashes and restarts the Copilot app). It's labeled as a "Labs" preview, I guess ...
"Copilot Vision is an extension of Microsoft's divisive Recall ..."
Suppose they have some things in common, but these are entirely separate features with entirely separate implementation, UI, and intended use cases.
What a strange way for Microsoft to announce they're ready for round two with the DoJ.
By the time that happens in 2045 they will have made trillions, and nothing will probably come it other than a million dollar fine that they can pay off in one day’s profit
It's like they enjoy antitrust lawsuits.
> Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers
All Microsoft programms send data to Microsoft servers. It is for your own good. /s
This call maybe recorded for training purposes!