Thane,
I think I have your point. But, why do we allow the purveyor of the OS
to operate as the 3rd
party who determines what s/w, apps, anyone chooses to use with their
new OS? And, why
should we allow MS to 'catalog' whatever s/w, apps, WE choose to use
with their OS?
ATM, this reads a bit heavy-handed by MS and Win8.
I remain open to alternate points. Personally, I have no plan to even
try out Win8; just because
of its' fixation on all of out 'modern' technology. Some of us
relatively happy MS folk just wish to
be left alone. I so see MS's direction and their push. I am not
convinced that I wish MS to become my
new 'Net Nanny.' Not when they now totally 'run' my machine.
Please forgive my ignorance in this discussion; I do NOT run multiple
OS on any of my PC's; so I
remain somewhat backward still............even while agreeing to try and
live with Win7...... :)
Just thinking.
Duncan
On 08/27/2012 14:42, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 09:13 PM 25/08/2012, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
http://gizmodo.com/5937649/windows-8-tells-microsoft-about-everything-you-install-not-very-securely
I see the privacy issue, but that's the downside of security for
people who don't want to be responsible to figure out if an
application is safe, they have to give information to a third party to
figure it out for them. I think this might be a good idea, if MS does
a good job of tracking the crap/mal-ware out there.
T
