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The concerns around Windows 10 and privacy have been voiced regularly across the Internet since the new operating system was released in late July. Recently, we even reviewed the extensive privacy settings that are available in Windows 10 to show you how you can control the level of data that is shared with Microsoft and apps on your Windows 10 system. Microsoft has been listening to these concerns as they have released several resources to answer your questions about privacy and now it appears they have added specific options to control two areas that have been part of that Windows 10 criticism. These new options appear when you are installing Windows 10 as of build 10558. This past weekend I was exploring that Windows 10 Build which recently leaked onto the Internet. I did a clean install of the OS into a virtual machine and so went through all the initial setup screens. I noticed new options being offered to address the peer to peer sharing of updates and whether or not to automatically access Wi-Fi hotspots whether suggested or shared by your contacts. This page in the new setup allows you to turn off the automatic connection to suggested Wi-Fi hotspots: The second new set of options in this refreshed Windows 10 setup process is to turn off the peer to peer sharing of Windows Updates. Of course, if you miss these options during the Windows 10 installation process you can always turn them off in the Settings app: Settings>Manage Wi-Fi Settings or Settings>Update & Security>Windows Update>Advanced Options>Choose how updates are delivered Source : winsupersite

Wow! I'm speechless. This guy still wears a fanny pack.

A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab, and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won’t stop staring at her. She asks him why he is staring. He replies: “I have a question to ask, but I don’t want to offend you.” She answers, “My son, you cannot offend me. When you’re as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I’m sure that there’s nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive.” “Well, I’ve always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me.” She responds, “Well, let’s see what we can do about that… 1) You have to be single and 2) You must be Catholic.” The cab driver is very excited and says, “Yes, I’m single and Catholic!” “OK” the nun says. “Pull into the next alley.” The nun fulfills his fantasy with a kiss that would make a hooker blush. But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying. “My dear child,” said the nun, “why are you crying?” “Forgive me, but I’ve sinned. I lied and I must confess, I’m married and I’m Jewish.” The nun says, “That’s OK. My name is Kevin and I’m going to a Halloween party!”

Wasn't something like this done using Fareit and Adobe Flash Player?

Yup, I was thinking the exact same thing!

A five-year patent battle between Google and Microsoft has come to a close, as both companies decided to end the feud and drop around 20 lawsuits in the US and Germany today. The tech titans have been clashing since 2010 over royalties related to technology in the Xbox game console and smartphones from Motorola Mobility, which Google owned up until January 2014, when it sold off the division to Lenovo — but kept many of its patents. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, but pledged to work together to strengthen the defense of intellectual property, according to a Bloomberg report. "Microsoft and Google are pleased to announce an agreement on patent issues. As part of the agreement, the companies will dismiss all pending patent infringement litigation between them, including cases related to Motorola Mobility," reads a joint statement from the two companies. "Separately, Google and Microsoft have agreed to collaborate on certain patent matters and anticipate working together in other areas in the future to benefit our customers." Google and Microsoft have pledged to work together in the future. The litigation back-and-forth started when Microsoft, which claims Android infringes on some of its patents, began demanding royalties starting in 2010 from phone makers worldwide for Android licensing agreements. That kicked off a bitter feud between Microsoft and phone makers like Motorola and Samsung, which Microsoft settled with back in January. The Windows maker claimed Motorola countered its smartphone royalties demands by demanding a 2.25 percent cut of all Xbox sales due to the game console's use of Wi-Fi and video compression technology. The fight dragged on and was further complicated when Google became a participant in 2013 through its Motorola acquisition. The Microsoft–Google partnership is already underway. Both companies in September agreed to help develop a royalty-free next-generation standard for encoding and decoding video streams alongside Amazon, Cisco, Intel, Mozilla, and Netflix. The group calls itself the Alliance for Open Media. Source : theverge

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I agree, I love Logitech. It is my preferred mouse even over Microsoft.

In some small way, it’s nice to know we’ve not come too far, or gotten too far ahead of ourselves, but in the other respect WHY ARE WE STILL REBOOTING OUR PCS TO FIX ISSUES? I’m all for nostalgia. This time of year tends to hit me additionally hard, for some reason. And, the older I get, it only gets worse. I have a wonderfully happy life, but I still get a melancholy during the fall season, remembering High School, college, playing sports (soccer and basketball were my games), and hanging out and goofing off with dear friends then that I still have today. It’s amazing how real those memories can be and how they affect a day. It’s like having a built in HoloLens, I guess. Those are good memories and ones that I cherish dearly. It’s the bad memories that are supposed to fade over time, or lessen in intensity. I can’t remember every time I’ve bumped my knee, for example, though for some reason I do it quite frequently. Somehow every time I sit down, the table leg figures out exactly where and how I’ll be sitting. I’ve grown accustomed to the pain over the years and it’s become a common joke between the wife and I. She believes I just don’t have great body awareness. Me? I blame our smaller-than-I-like kitchen area. Of course, this happens when eating out, too, so my theory doesn’t really hold any merit. Somehow I just can’t help destroying my kneecaps constantly. I’ll admit secretly that it’s a flaw, but just not important enough to me to fix, I guess. However, there are some things we can fix – at least some things I believe are important enough to attempt to manage to fix. One of those is rebooting the PC to fix problems. By now, with Windows 10 firmly in our grasp, one would think that the woes of yesteryear would be firmly behind us. Granted, Windows 10 is still a work in progress and will continually be so for the next 10 years, but I can’t tell you the number of times since installing that I’ve rebooted the PC just to clear out weirdness. This morning, in fact, I lost an entire article in our CMS while working in Microsoft Edge. Sometimes Edge tabs will go haywire, and each time you click on a tab to bring the page into view, the Edge will refresh the page completely – like I’m trying to access it for the first time. The fix? Reboot. I can understand the need to reboot in earlier versions of Windows (prior to Windows 8). I’ve always held a grudge against poorly written 3rd party apps (*ahem* Adobe) that are a big reason reboots are necessary. But, built-in apps? Or, ones that have been developed by Microsoft for Microsoft? That makes no sense. Windows 10 Store not working? Reboot. Windows 10 Mail and Calendar app flaking out? Reboot. Wi-Fi not connecting coming out of sleep mode? Reboot. General weirdness? Reboot. I run multiple PCs and tablets, running different editions of Windows 10, and they all exhibit the same problems with the same Windows 10 apps that only a reboot will fix. Thankfully, Windows 10 allows much quicker PC restarts, so the process is not as painful as it used to be. But, that doesn’t make it any better, particularly when you lose data (like I did this morning), or have to halt what you’re doing completely to perform the 3-finger salute. I can’t even imagine how end-users must feel hearing that overused query from the helpdesk: “Have your restarted your PC yet?” I’m sure it’s a big joke in the end-user population and doesn’t make the IT staff seem as intelligent as they surely are. Are you also experiencing the need to reboot with Windows 10? If so, in which specific scenarios and apps? Do you think this is fixable or is restarting the PC just a bit of PC history nostalgia we have to live with? Source : winsupersite

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Unauthorized

Geeze, what are they going to come up with next? This stuff is never ending.

The volume around Windows 10 and privacy has been steadily increasing since shortly after the release of Windows 10 in late July. Just yesterday Terry Myerson, the Executive VP for the Windows Devices Group at Microsoft, laid out the companies privacy approach when it comes to Windows 10 plus the company published additional resources to show exactly how they are using the data it does collect from Windows 10 systems and how the user can control it. Windows 10 has the most granular level of controls relating to privacy than any Windows operating system before it. There are thirteen pages of settings related to privacy on Windows 10 and the user is able to specify what info is shared with apps and the amount of data that is sent to Microsoft. This video will walk through the privacy settings that are available in Windows 10 to help you understand the level of control that is possible. Source : winsupersite

You are welcome, Peter. I'm happy to help.