A viral Twitter rant about Windows 10 Enterprise supposedly ignoring users’ privacy settings has since been clarified. “I made mistakes on my original testing and therefore saw more connections than I should have,” writes IT security analyst Mark Burnett, “including some to Google ads.” But his qualified results — quoted below — are still critical of Microsoft:
You can cut back even more using the Windows Restricted Traffic Limited Functionality Baseline but break many things.Settings can be set wrong if you aren’t paying attention. Also, settings are not consistent and can be confusing to beginners.You are opted-in to just about everything by default and have to set hundreds of settings to opt out, even on an Enterprise Windows system. Sometimes multiple settings for the same feature. Most Microsoft documentation discourages opting out and warns of a less optimal experience… But you can’t completely opt-out. Windows still tracks too much.Home and Professional users are much worse off due to limitations of some settings and lack of an IT staff… I’m not saying ditch Windows. I’m saying let’s fix this. If we can’t fix it, then we ditch Windows.
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