![]() ![]() Similarly, when the "recommended" container of the start menu refreshes itself, it does a lot of network traffic, none of which is recorded in DDV. It is also not possible to disable it (there were various group policy and registry settings that worked at some point in time, none of them do any more on latest versions of Windows 11). That is not considered telemetry so it does not show up in the Diagnostic Data Viewer. There are network requests being made every time you type a character in the start menu (whether or not you have web search enabled). It's true that most system diagnostics / telemetry flow through this application however, that's only one part of the network requests going out of your system. The app you're talking about is called Diagnostic Data Viewer. They go straight to "oh I can get views if I complain about Microsoft and sound very offended by it!" So, that's what they do. You can also, from that application, delete the stuff Microsoft has collected about you from that machine. ![]() None of them seem to be aware that you can install a telemetry viewer application and see everything sent to Microsoft from your PC if you're so concerned with what is being collected. These are all normal things, but people who don't understand how Windows handles these things consider them all spyware. Do you need updates? Are you an Autopilot machine used in the enterprise? Do any of your installed applications need updates from the Windows Store? They also bring water in case I am thirsty right now.īY FAR (if not entirely) this is what Windows does. But, without even opening the menu, the waiter needs to know that I'm there so they can bring the menu to me and greet me. Let's say I'm a politician at a restaurant. If the machine feels good and fast, I use it. Other factors are give or take depending on moon phases. I have zero loyalties to trademarks either way. I have an M1 mbp I use around the house, but I generally dont get emotionally invested in exactly who vended my OS/machine. drop System.Drawing image conversion laziness).Īt work, we are a Windows-only shop for the most part. I could deploy our product to Linux with a few tweaks (i.e. NET6+ but with SQLite and minimal AspNetCore projects instead of SQL Server and IIS. I recognize products like Azure and SQL Server are a potential trap. ![]() Blindly diving 100% into the Microsoft offering hellscape is definitely going to be a bad time. The trick is to carefully select technologies and pay attention to what you actually need to operate. I think some of us aren't having as bad a time as others. AOL did an incredibly poor job pivoting as people moved to broadband- I can recall there was a package to use their propriatery offerings with an external ISP, but it was expensive, until one day it was free because they realized they needed to keep their portal/email audience from imploding totally. I can recall my parents were willing to pay $25/month for AOL when generic dialup was in the $10-15 range to remain part of specific communities inside the walled garden. They could have stayed around presenting themselves as a "premium over-the-top channel" style offering- you can get the same basic internet as everyone else, but for just $5 more, all this extra. I'm actually surprised that the walled gardens went down without a fight. There may also have been potential for more exclusive content if the walled-garden clients offered richer media (or the services better kickback) than what can be provided by a normal 1995 HTML tag-soup site running through an early IE or Netscape, it would be worth partnering with them. Since there was a single gatekeeper, you could promise a safer, more accountable and family-friendly environment for the social channels. (Remember, this is also back when Yahoo was valuable as a directory.) This was an era before ubiquitous search, so the fact everything was in a single navigable heirarchy was more valuable. The walled-garden platform did offer some benefits, particularly when you've got an audience new to the medium. The competition was not necessarily the Open Internet, it was AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve. For a 1995 era vision, you can make a reasoned case for MSN. ![]()
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