Our commitment to privacy in Microsoft Productivity Score

[devnonymous]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/12/01/our-commitment-to-privacy-in-microsoft-productivity-score/

[xet7]

As a commitment to privacy, as a next step, can I get option to Win10 to disable all tracking? And also at install phase of Win10, at first privacy question, option to disable all tracking, all cloud account etc, skipping all the other related questions?

And for macOS too?

[dragonsngoblins]

The pessimist in me thinks this is just stalling and they will re-enable these features when the heat has died down but with less fanfare

[Azerty9999]

Nice to see that this community helped push Microsoft to do the right thing in this case and make a change.

[mikestew → Azerty9999]

Sad to see that Microsoft needed outside feedback instead of figuring out the outcome on their own before they shipped. Am I to seriously believe no decision-maker saw this coming? I think they threw it out there to see if they could get away with it, and if not, well mea culpa all around. It's either that, or some program managers over there are awfully naive.

[Spivak → mikestew]

It's always going to take an outsider to show someone who designed a feature with good intentions how it can be used by people with nefarious ones.