It doesn’t stop all tracking, a lot of it still happens in the background, only “without identification”. If you thought otherwise, I have this pristine Eiffel Tower for sale.
I’ve never paid for it. Most Windows 11 users have not paid for it. You can buy a license but they also gave it away to effectively everyone and anyone who wants to can run it without buying it so long as you don’t mind the “activate more” watermark and less appearance options
1 minute during setup is not exactly a sacrifice
It doesn’t stop all tracking, a lot of it still happens in the background, only “without identification”. If you thought otherwise, I have this pristine Eiffel Tower for sale.
I’m not at all concerned about them collecting random useless data that will happen their own effectiveness
Imagine thinking in 2023 that there’s still such a thing as ‘useless data’
What’s the useful part
It shows where Microsoft’s mind is at. And it won’t stop here.
God forbid they make money on a product they have given away
Given away? Windows is a paid product. And there are other (free!) operating systems that are not driven by profit.
I’ve never paid for it. Most Windows 11 users have not paid for it. You can buy a license but they also gave it away to effectively everyone and anyone who wants to can run it without buying it so long as you don’t mind the “activate more” watermark and less appearance options
They make their real money on Azure iirc. And they’ve recently had a security leak of about 38 TB of data. Nice.
It’s not 1 minute, you have to be technically savvy and run scripts from GitHub
No it’s just a title list that’s presented to you on the first time startup wizard
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Oh Jesus her we go