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The updates are KB3068708 ("Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry" and mandatory) KB3075249 ("Update that adds telemetry points to consent.exe in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7") and KB3080149 (also an "Update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry", both optional).
The notes explain that diagnostic telemetry data is sent to  settings-win.data.microsoft.com  (64.4.54.253) over SSL. Privacy advocates note that the OS is hardwired to use that hostname, so trying to override the IP address it resolves to using your PC's hosts file won't work.

паће wrote:Ау... јеботе:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/14/welcome_to_the_microsoftlinkedin_apocalypse/

другар из Северног Ванкувера wrote:
In the upcoming Anniversary edition, more anti-features that do nothing for users and are all about Microsoft:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3100358/windows/you-cant-turn-off-cortana-in-the-windows-10-anniversary-update.html
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/28/microsoft-removes-policies-windows-10-pro/

Curiously, MS is not being up-front about these changes. Maybe they're being floated as trial balloons, if public reaction is bad MS might not implement them in the actual Anniversary release which apparently starts rolling out August 2. I have to say I'm not sanguine.

I used to look forward to new MS OS releases - up to and including Windows 7 (I never ran Vista myself but understood its necessity). Their philosophy changed with Windows 8 - the release that was mainly about making things consistent between phones, tablets and PCs - convenient for MS in having a single code base, more difficult for end users who need to get things done using their PCs as the tools they're supposed to be.

Now Windows 10 users are frogs being slowly boiled. Users are losing their privacy and control over their computing environments:

- Quickly, if they are unskilled consumers leaving Windows 10 at its default settings
- Slowly (but still surely), if they are skilled and concerned about privacy and control

Somehow, Microsoft considers it an improvement to Windows 10 if they can now install Candy Crush on my computers and I can't stop them from doing that.

It's ironic that Bill Gates launched Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing#Microsoft_and_Trustworthy_Computing : "Four areas were identified as the initiative’s key areas: Security, Privacy, Reliability, and Business Integrity". With Windows 10, MS is throwing away Privacy and Business Integrity.

I've not fully trusted Microsoft for some time, but now that they're compromising the core OS I don't trust them at all.

Microsoft.Windows.Inventory.Core.InventoryApplicationAdd

• ProgramInstanceId A hash of the file IDs in an app.
  
• Name The name of the application. Location pulled from depends on 'Source' field. Example:
  
• Type One of ("Application", "Hotfix", "BOE", "Service", "Unknown"). Application indicates Win32 or Appx app, Hotfix indicates app updates (KBs), BOE indicates it's an app with no ARP or MSI entry, Service indicates that it is a service. Application and BOE are the ones most likely seen. Example: Application
  
• Publisher The Publisher of the application. Location pulled from depends on the 'Source' field. Example: Neudesic
  
• Version The version number of the program. Example: 6.00.0003
  
• Language The language code of the program. Language codes can be found at 221435 Example: 1033
  
• Source Where the data for the application was found, such as Add/Remove Programs (ARP), MSI, AppxPackage, etc. Example: Msi
  
• MsiProductCode A GUID that describe the MSI Product. Example: {365812a8-44d6-422e-b737-d540451e5f4e}
  
• MsiPackageCode A GUID that describes the MSI Package. Multiple 'Products' (apps) can make up an MsiPackage. Example: {1BCC5142-D98C-430B-B74A-484A0328A7CE}
  
• HiddenArp Indicates whether a program hides itself from showing up in ARP. Example: TRUE
  
• OSVersionAtInstallTime The four octets from the OS version at the time of the application's install. Example:
  
• RootDirPath The path to the root directory where the program was installed. Example: %ProgramFiles% (x86)\Neudesic\Azure Storage Explorer 6
  
• InstallDate The date the application was installed (a best guess based on folder creation date heuristics) Example: 4/12/2015 01:27:52
  
• InstallDateMsi The install date if the application was installed via MSI. Passed as an array. Example: 4/11/2015 00:00:00
  
• InstallDateFromLinkFile The estimated date of install based on the links to the files. Passed as an array. Example: 4/8/2015 01:06:11
  
• InstallDateArpLastModified The date of the registry ARP key for a given application. Hints at install date but not always accurate. Passed as an array. Example: 4/11/2015 00:00:00
  
• PartB_Ms.Device.DeviceInventoryChange See the Common Data Fields section.
  
• objectInstanceId ProgramId (a hash of Name, Version, Publisher, and Language of an application used to identify it). Example: 00000144865763f3de24c2ae5a289fde6db300000904
  
• PackageFullName The package full name for a Store application. Example: Microsoft.Hexic_1.2.0.36_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe
  
• InventoryVersion The version of the inventory file generating the events.
  
• StoreAppType A sub-classification for the type of Windows Store app, such as UWP or Win8StoreApp.
  

д. из т. wrote:>I make a change to an app. It runs fine in development mode.
>I compile it, and it gives me an error message that file access is denied...pointing to the .exe of the app.
>If I then try to run the .exe, it says something about possibly not having permissions.
>Then I shut down the pc and then reboot.
>I go back into VFP and compile the program again... with no error message at all this time.
>Then I can run the .exe with no difficulty at all.

The presentation in question aims to show potential customers how to migrate their applications and data to Redmond’s cloud service. But midway through the session, Edge crashes.
This is when after a brief moment of hesitation, the employee finally gives up and charmingly informs the audience that he’ll be taking a moment to install Chrome in order to finish the demo session, which he then goes on to do.

So why so much outrage? In a conversation with Slashdot, software developer and student Sean said that he believes a deal of such capacity would be bad for the open source community. "They've shown time and time again that they can't be trusted," he said. Sean and many other believe that Microsoft would eventually start telemetry program on the code repository. "Aside from Microsoft not being trustworthy to the open source community, I'm sure they'll add tracking and possibly even ads to all the sites within GitHub. As well as possibly use it to push LinkedIn (which they own)," he said. Ryan Hoover, the founder of ProductHunt, wrote on Sunday, "Anecdotally, the developer community is very unapproving of this move. I'm curious how Microsoft manages this and how GitHub changes (or doesn't change)." Even as Microsoft has "embraced" the open source community in the recent years (under the leadership of Mr. Nadella), for many developers, it will take time -- if at all -- to forget the company's past closed-ecosystem approach. Just this weekend, a developer accused Microsoft of stealing his code.