Update (Windows 7 and 8 are now being updated to get Telemetry, same tracking as Windows 10)

*scratches head*

Microsoft literally tells you that you can turn this off. It’s not even hidden. If you have an IQ anywhere north of room temperature, you should be able to figure out how to turn it off.

I really don’t understand all the hoopla. We turned off this setting in our corporate domain as soon as we upgraded our domain functional level to Server 2008.

I’m perplexed that you are STILL gullibly believing Microsoft, like a little 8 year old child, that we can just turn off the spying?

Then you have the audacity to talk about a low IQ?

Have you not learned anything over the NSA spying????

ROTFLMAO!

I’ve been engineering Windows systems for corporations for decades. This experience has given me a deep understanding of the core operating system from hardware layer interactions all the way up to the GUI you use every day. I’ve configured switches, routers, and firewalls that allow or prevent traffic to and from these systems.

Just as with the open-source community’s watchful eye, I can tell you that if Microsoft was indeed involved in regular “spying” on their customers, the hue and cry from the public, esp. those of us who understand computer interactions and can monitor and log them, would be enormous.

Is Microsoft a behemoth? Yes. I’ve worked with countless Microsoft engineers, including a few FReepers, who will tell you that while they are more or less just an employee number to their employer, they feel that Microsoft is not inherently evil. They provide an exceptional solutions platform that is unrivaled in size, scope, or support the world over. It’s easy to cast a weary eye on one of the world’s largest companies. It’s a lot harder to trust them. Given my 20 years of interaction with Microsoft platforms, I can tell you that yes, they are doing more in the way of telemetry, but they are not doing anything surreptitious that the engineering community doesn’t already know about.

Also, if you think you’re free from telemetry on an Android mobile device or any Apple platform, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Real cheap.

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