From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Reiner Karlsberg <karlsberg@softart-ge.com>,
WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Should we sunset Windows 7 support?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:13:36 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201112141336.29e5ca2e@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9oR=OD1Sib7hhriPOAXdL591BoQ=9v7LBE-hF3zYvVDtQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:34:43 +0100
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> Could you let me know the rationale for your continued use of Windows
> 7? Is it economic? Is it just UI preference, and security isn't a
> priority to you? Something else?
For me, the UI preference absolutely; but security *is* certainly a priority,
which is exactly why I will not run Windows 10:
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2956574/windows-10-privacy-spyware-settings-user-agreement.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/11/02/microsoft-confirms-unstoppable-windows-10-tracking/
https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/18770/the-truth-about-windows-10-spying-on-almost-everything-you-do/
Don't want to wrestle with disabling all of that, to find out that the next
update rolled back my settings, and then added more spying that can't be
disabled this time.
--
With respect,
Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-12 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 12:27 Should we sunset Windows 7 support? Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-10 12:47 ` Laslo Hunhold
2020-11-10 12:56 ` samuel.progin
2020-11-10 13:06 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-10 12:57 ` Isaac Boukris
2020-11-10 15:06 ` Reiner Karlsberg
2020-11-12 8:34 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-12 9:13 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2020-11-10 17:38 ` Andrew Fried
2020-11-12 8:38 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-12 8:46 ` Phillip McMahon
2020-11-12 8:50 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-12 9:03 ` Berge Schwebs Bjørlo
2020-11-13 2:56 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-11-19 16:59 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-19 17:16 ` akloster
2021-10-07 23:35 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-12 21:56 ` Panagiotis Kalogiratos
2020-11-12 17:38 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-11-12 17:42 ` Phillip McMahon
2020-11-12 18:11 ` Neal Gompa
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