Microsoft is celebrating one year of the Windows Insider program with an email to all Insiders and thanking them for their help in the development of Windows 10.
In the e-mail, he mentions some of the data he has collected, which are very interesting.
- Insiders have submitted over 8.6 million pieces of feedback.
- Insiders spent over 443 million hours on Windows 10.
- The Insider Program is now available in 30 languages.
Insiders submitted 8.6 million feedbacks and spent 443 million hours on the new operating system. Unbelievable?
How much do 443 million hours of (free) work on Microsoft's operating system really cost? How much would the company pay in labor hours?
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Here we should mention that according to the company, this data comes exclusively from Insiders and not from the telemetry services that send data from all users of the operating system….
Right now, Microsoft's operating system instead of Windows 10 could have been just Windows as it follows a pattern that Linux users know very well.
The operating system became almost a rolling release, continuing its development non-stop from the first day of its release. But the thing is, no one pays for Linux….
Those of you who upgraded to the new version would do well to know that since Windows 10 was in the development stages before it was even implemented, it was presented as the new technological marvel and the best operating system ever released.
Is it reality or is it part of Microsoft's marketing strategy that, along with the free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8, is trying to "catch" every gullible person?
Let's remind ourselves that with Microsoft's modern technology, we are saying goodbye to our private lives for good. In addition to the above data that the company says it has collected, it knows what you eat, where you go, your friends, your address, what you search for on the internet, what your favorite vacation spot is, and any other activity you do online.
"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services."
The company's supporters say they don't care and support Redmond, which states in its terms of use that all of this is necessary for the proper functioning of Windows 10.
The company, meanwhile, continues to strike below the waist by secretly changing Group Policy in Windows 10. This removed features from Pro users, directing professionals to more expensive versions. Since there is no official statement yet, we can assume that the company is only doing this for the good of the end user, as usual…
But since we live in 2016, it would be delusional to believe that technology can be separated from social and economic life and that there can be a private life. But we should admit that there are other ways (see Linux communities and RedHat's commercial model with a Fedora and a CentOS available for free).
As for privacy, it seems we've lost it for good, or rather, we didn't lose it, we handed it over to Microsoft without a fight, as soon as it gave us the first little gadgets and mirrors.
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