I just read a really disturbing article about Windows 10 privacy (Google it; there are quite a few). In short, the end user has no privacy whatsoever. Microsoft will have access to everything you do, type, and say as well as every web site you ever visit. What’s more, they state clearly in their ‘privacy’ policy that they can disclose or even sell anything they gather from you to anyone they want, any time they want.
I was all ready to jump onto the bandwagon until I read that. In fact, until yesterday, I was signed up and waiting impatiently for the upgrade prompt. Now I’m thinking Windows 7 is going to do me until 2020 when the warranty runs out. After that? I have no idea.
Maybe Linux? Hard to say, really. I’ve checked back with Linux every few years since 1995 and it still looks like a big mess to me.
Apple and the Mac? This year’s models are all sealed up so no hardware upgrades… unless you fork over the big bucks and get the top-of-the-line Mac Pro bucket. Otherwise, what you buy is what you’re going to be using until you go buy a whole new system.
And I really can’t think of another OS that will run high quality software for music production, graphics, video editing, animation and writing. (sigh)
I can only hope that the outcry is so loud that Microsoft rethinks their privacy policy… or someone comes along with a saner OS that actually allows us the privacy we all have the right to.
I just read a really disturbing article about Windows 10 privacy (Google it; there are quite a few). In short, the end user has no privacy whatsoever. Microsoft will have access to everything you do, type, and say as well as every web site you ever visit. What’s more, they state clearly in their ‘privacy’ policy that they can disclose or even sell anything they gather from you to anyone they want, any time they want.
I was all ready to jump onto the bandwagon until I read that. In fact, until yesterday, I was signed up and waiting impatiently for the upgrade prompt. Now I’m thinking Windows 7 is going to do me until 2020 when the warranty runs out. After that? I have no idea.
Maybe Linux? Hard to say, really. I’ve checked back with Linux every few years since 1995 and it still looks like a big mess to me.
Apple and the Mac? This year’s models are all sealed up so no hardware upgrades… unless you fork over the big bucks and get the top-of-the-line Mac Pro bucket. Otherwise, what you buy is what you’re going to be using until you go buy a whole new system.
And I really can’t think of another OS that will run high quality software for 3D, music production, graphics, video editing, animation and writing. (sigh)
I can only hope that the outcry is so loud that Microsoft rethinks their privacy policy… or someone comes along with a saner OS that actually allows us the privacy we all have the right to.I just read a really disturbing article about Windows 10 privacy (Google it; there are quite a few). In short, the end user has no privacy whatsoever. Microsoft will have access to everything you do, type, and say as well as every web site you ever visit. What’s more, they state clearly in their ‘privacy’ policy that they can disclose or even sell anything they gather from you to anyone they want, any time they want.
I was all ready to jump onto the bandwagon until I read that. In fact, until yesterday, I was signed up and waiting impatiently for the upgrade prompt. Now I’m thinking Windows 7 is going to do me until 2020 when the warranty runs out. After that? I have no idea.
Maybe Linux? Hard to say, really. I’ve checked back with Linux every few years since 1995 and it still looks like a big mess to me.
Apple and the Mac? This year’s models are all sealed up so no hardware upgrades… unless you fork over the big bucks and get the top-of-the-line Mac Pro bucket. Otherwise, what you buy is what you’re going to be using until you go buy a whole new system.
And I really can’t think of another OS that will run high quality software for music production, graphics, video editing, animation and writing. (sigh)
I can only hope that the outcry is so loud that Microsoft rethinks their privacy policy… or someone comes along with a saner OS that actually allows us the privacy we all have the right to.