>>Microsoft Makes Windows 10 Automatic Spying Worse:
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>>http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/11/24/windows-10-automatic-spying-begins-again/
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>http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/11/02/microsoft-confirms-unstoppable-windows-10-tracking/
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>As a .vhd /.vdi is nothing but a special file, such info pretty much rules out Windows as a host OS for VM's: there is nothing stoppig WinX from reading any .vhd and sending info back. Either Linux as host OS if I want to run a hosted hypervisor or bite the bullet and go for a native/bare metal hypervisor. Still, there is no guarantee that a bare metal hypervisor does not have similar functionality hidden somewhere not too obvious. Has anybody seen any reference to the MS Hyper - V (freeserver edition) in connection with such spying clearances and/or behaviour in the EULA or articles about the topic?
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>Back in DEC TOPS-20 times there was a common scratch area available to all users and permissions to access foreign scratch dirs could be granted. Feels like back to the future if such things need to be revived to keep my data personal...

I love this from the 2nd article:

By default Windows 10 Home is allowed to control your bandwidth usage, install any software it wants whenever it wants (without providing detailed information on what these updates do), display ads in the Start Menu (currently it has been limited to app advertisements), send your hardware details and any changes you make to Microsoft and even log your browser history and keystrokes which the Windows End User Licence Agreement (EULA) states you allow Microsoft to use for analysis.
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"Ads in the Start menu" .... OMG ...

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