How Safe Is Your Online Market With Windows 10 Microsoft Update?

Only custom ads to my address book reading PDA, some users are unhappy with Windows 10 approach to security.

Visitors tested Windows 10, the latest operating system of US software giant Microsoft, in a launch event in Seoul July 29 2015

Try visitors on a Windows 10 launch event in Seoul. The new operating system has been criticized because of the default settings, personal information is sent to Microsoft among other complaints.

Windows 10 is attacked in the default configuration, users say, privacy is compromised by this, a few days after the successful launch of the operating system there was  over 14 million installations in the just  24 hours.

Hundreds of commentators on sites like Hacker News and Reddit have default values ​​that criticized sending  personal information to Microsoft, use the bandwidth for the operating system to download the data to other computers, Wi-Fi password sharing with friends online and to eliminate the possibility of removing security updates.

Many complaints concern the new announcements in Windows 10. If the integrated operating system is installed, Microsoft  issue  the user a unique identifier that links advertising to the email address registered with the company. The email address is associated with a number of other services, such as productivity programs and communication of the company downloads and downloads applications and cloud storage.

With this information, Microsoft is able to customize advertisements to the user, downloaded period and when you surf the web for the latest Windows Store applications, also the use of the application. Microsoft itself is a leader on this front, also turning the construction version of Solitaire (since 1990 playing the cards with Windows 3.0 was Windows installations staples) into a freemium game, with video ads interface.

In addition, Windows 10 also harvest user information to teach integrated personal digital assistant Cortana, Microsoft's answer to Siri. To allow Cortana, the company says it "collects and uses various types of data such as the location of your device, calendar date, applications that data from emails and text messages are used, contacts you call and how many times you have  interact with them from your device. "

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Users have the opportunity to decide more data collection, but critics say that is not enough. Alec Sea, Rock Paper Shotgungame site, said: "Microsoft is still unclear, how will it affect you and how to opt out - although chest-thumping, which are all- -chums- talk about how" real transparency begins with simple conditions and guidelines, people can understand clearly. "

"There is a world that divides 45 pages of policy documents and opt-out settings for 13 different screen configurations and an external website provides a" real transparency ".

Others criticized  company  to get a clause clear in their terms of service, a permission to shares user data based on more than the belief in "good faith" as needed to comply with the agencies of law enforcement, "The protection of our customers," secure the services of the company, or "the rights or property of Microsoft."

The terms remember to engage the company in March 2014, when the Hotmail account of blogger suspected of leaking a first version of Windows 10. After seeing critical comment for this act, Microsoft has reinforced its confidentiality policy, and promised  a  complete domestic legal review before they would again in the future.

The European Digital Rights Organisation (EDRI) summarizes the company 45 pages of terms and conditions with the words "Microsoft basically admits even very broad rights to gather every metrics of what you do, say and write with and on their devices advertising to sell or not disclose your data to sell to third parties. "

In many ways, however, Windows 10 is only an approximation of what will become the new standard, thanks to mobile operating systems. Both Siri and Google is now access to the personal data of the user to customize the responses, while both Apple and Google give developers the ability to broadcast personalized ads to users based on information such as the installed application.

And criticizing some of the parameters may become a net positive for everyone. Either install and reboot immediately or request permission to install and reboot: Windows 10 users only attacked with two settings when it comes to Windows Update. The option to install no update is not in the basic version of the operating system are available. But this decision sounds the advice of security experts who say that the first thing is to install each update, and  is immediate online security.