For years, practically since its inception, there are many issues that concern users who work with Windows 10. Something very similar happens with many of those who for one reason or another consider migrating from Windows 7 or 8.1, for example. However, one of the most delicate sections in this sense, we find it with everything related to privacy.
But it is not only privacy that drives new users back, or those who criticize current ones. At the same time, many complain about the high consumption of PC resources by Windows 10, UWP applications , updates, etc. In fact, if we talk about this last section that we comment on, despite being one of the most important elements, they are also one of the most problematic.
In spite of everything, it is not that of those who want you in these same lines, since we want to focus more on the aspect of privacy . Also known as telemetry, this is one of the most criticized sections of the Redmond system. Not in vain, over time they have had to soften it a bit, but without eliminating it.
Why Telemetry Affects Windows Privacy
First of all, we must be clear that when we talk about telemetry, we are actually referring to the collection of data that Windows 10 does. These are usage and personal data of users that are transmitted to Microsoft‘s servers , yes, in a anonymous. While for the company as such these are important to improve future versions of the system, users do not see it that way.
They consider that it is a clear violation of privacy in the operating system, hence their rejection.
Privacy in Windows 10 can be configured
With everything and with this, in the latest versions of the system, Microsoft itself allows us to customize between two different levels of telemetry to increase privacy. Thus we find the necessary and optional diagnostic data. The first format collects only the basic configuration data, and the optional ones expand that information that Microsoft collects much more.
To eliminate telemetry completely, we cannot natively, so we will have to use third-party software solutions. These will allow us to largely avoid that native data sending that Windows 10 does .
Windows 10 has many other problems
But as we let you glimpse before, although this is one of the sections most criticized by users, it is not the priority to be solved by Microsoft. And it is that at the moment the firm based in Redmond has more important problems to worry about in Windows 10, at least from its point of view.
Among these, it is worth noting the almost constant problems and failures that most operating system updates bring with them. That is why the software giant works to a great extent to reduce both the amount of them, and the damage they can do to users’ PCs.
