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Microsoft Lies About Vista 10 and Increases Microsoft Surveillance (Even Beyond Vista 10 and Into Android, Vista 7/8)

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Daily Express



Summary: Windows surveillance expands retroactively, making its way into platforms other than Windows and also expanding to predecessors of Vista 10

IN TERMS of sales and technical weaknesses, Vista 10 is a huge disaster, doing probably worse than its predecessor, which also did worse than the mythically 'great' Windows Vista. It really is a total disaster, but Microsoft employees won't say this to the media for fear of personal retribution (firing).



"...Microsoft is putting Bing inside Cyanogen OS, not just from the company Cyanogen but also in OnePlus."The unprecedented spyware problem is no longer limited to just Vista 10, so users of Windows on PCs are all affected. They should escape all of Windows as soon as possible because even older versions have spying features silently added to them. Well, this has actually been known for a while and we wrote about it several weeks ago. Now it appears as though more people become aware of it (the latest headline says "Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy On You Like Windows 10"). Based on [1-3], Microsoft is putting Bing inside Cyanogen OS, not just from the company Cyanogen but also in OnePlus. This company, OnePlus, should dump Cyanogen OS, for reasons we covered here before [1, 2].

Mind this new article titled "Windows 10 automatically sends parents detailed dossier of their children's internet history and computer use". To quote just the opening paragraphs: "Windows 10 sends a weekly “activity update” on childrens’ internet browsing and computer history to parents, by default and without telling anyone. The feature could be dangerous as well as embarrassing, users have pointed out, allowing parents to watch everything their children do on the computer.

"Microsoft has become just a surveillance company and Windows the surveillance platform.""The operating system sends a weekly note that includes a list of websites children have visited, how many hours per day they have spent on the computer, and for how long they have used their favourite apps, according to reports."

Microsoft has become just a surveillance company and Windows the surveillance platform.

Vista 10 lies ("marketing") now grow in lieu with Munich propaganda (anti-GNU/Linux myth-making, in order to scare CIOs who are fed up with Windows). Beware Microsoft's fake vista 10 figures. These are being pushed by Microsoft into its boosters and moles in the media right now. The company has a long history gaming numbers to lie about number of 'sales' or 'useds' [sic]. Here is one Microsoft booster disseminating what it essentially Microsoft marketing with a sloppily-made image that cement the Big Lie (carving it in stone, within an image that cannot be edited for correction). "The only question," wrote to us iopkh, "is how they are fiddling the stats."

These claims are pulled directly from Microsoft, or rather, they are being pushed by Microsoft onto gullible journalists or complicit 'journalists'. The author is a known Microsoft booster with history. Microsoft's own figures hysterically debunk some early claims that the media cited a lot (between 45 million and 55 million 'upgrades' after 3 days). We warned that these were baseless claims from the rumour mill and Microsoft's trolls army.

This time too we cannot trust the figures since they come from Microsoft. Based on how it has always gamed the numbers ('sales' not meaning actual sales or even users), we know these are lies. Look at web statistics from some of the more respected sources. Maybe 5% market share (or less) is what Microsoft's latest beast has got at the moment, which given the price and other exceptional factors, is truly (and quite frankly) pathetic.

Related/contextual items from the news:



  1. OnePlus Rolls Out Cyanogen OS 12.1 Based On Android 5.1.1 Lollipop To OnePlus One Users Via OTA Update


  2. OnePlus One Now Receiving Cyanogen OS 12.1 Based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop
  3. [Update: New Links] Cyanogen OS 12.1 OTA Update (Based On Android 5.1.1) Now Available To Download For The OnePlus One


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