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Concerns were shown by advocates and other critics for Windows 10's privacy policies and its collection and use of customer data. [44] Under the default "Express" settings, Windows 10 is configured to send various information to Microsoft and other parties, including the collection of user contacts, calendar data, computer's appearance including color of the chassis and "associated input data ...
Windows is criticized for having the Internet Explorer web browser integrated into the Windows shell from Windows 98 onwards. Previously Internet Explorer was shipped as a separate application. [19] One problem was that since the Explorer cannot be easily replaced with a product of another vendor, this undermines consumer choice. [20]
User control over Windows Updates is removed (except in enterprise versions). In earlier versions, users could opt for updates to be installed automatically, or to be notified so they could update as and when they wished, or not to be notified; and they could choose which updates to install, using information about the updates.
Here is a gallery with 10 reasons to upgrade to Windows 10: Windows has gone a very long way from its origins, with some operating systems that have revolutionized the way we use our technology ...
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Windows 10 was criticized on-launch for having default settings that send various information regarding user behaviors to Microsoft and its "trusted partners", such as data regarding user contacts and calendar events, location data and history, "telemetry" (diagnostics data); [128] this could not be fully disabled on non-enterprise versions of ...
Almost immediately, Windows virtual machines on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform began rebooting and crashing, [17] and at 06:48 UTC, Google Compute Engine also reported the problem. The problem affected systems running Windows 10 and Windows 11 running the CrowdStrike Falcon software.
Windows 10 is the last version of Microsoft Windows that supports 32-bit processors (IA-32 and ARMv7-based), the last non-IoT edition to officially lack a CPU whitelist [30] and support BIOS firmware, [31] [32] and the last version to officially support systems with TPM 1.2 or without any TPM at all.