oh for the love of

[solarbird]

So, yeah, Windows 10, looking pretty decent, has some issues, but Cortana looks pretty fun and I’ll want to try that, and there’s games testing about to happen that will be relevant, but whatever.

And then I see this.

What the hell, Microsoft? What the hell. Even if – okay, I’m sure this is true – corporate machines can or will have this turned off by default by administrators, this is still a mind-bogglingly bad decision. Even laying aside the whole ‘people don’t want to automatically share their home network passwords to EVERYONE THEY’VE EVER MET EVER’ thing, people use personal machines at work.

I’d add commentary about people using phones at work too, but then I remembered it’s Windows Phone, so nevermind. But the laptop thing? Oh yeah.

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[needled_ink_1975]

WHUT?!

...but I suppose I don't have to worry because WiFi's not really a thing in this country yet. I mean, it's still a big deal to go to some (actually very few) malls where you get Magic Free Internet (sadly, no, I'm not kidding). The Free bit is especially Magical, because here bandwidth costs the frickin' earth, and half of the rest of the planets, too. Umm, and then it's not so Magical when the Free Internet automagically shuts off after 45 mins.

As for routers that emit local WiFi, the law here demands that routers are now sold with WiFi locked to a single user by default. This was after the building next door to some government entity was caught happily pinching their bandwidth. Amazing how 'security' suddenly has meaning when politicians are the ones getting robbed...

Umm, and Win10 better get that crap sorted out or I'll stick with Win7 till M$ euthanizes it.

–N

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[solarbird]

You can turn it off. But, according to the linked article, it's on by default. Which is just flat out insanity. I can't even.

[birke]

That's so weird. I mean, not just on a privacy level, but why would that even be useful? Most of my Skype contacts are Skype contacts because they live and work way too far away to use my Wifi network...?

[solarbird]

Honestly, I don't even know. I would guess visitors to homes, and family members who don't understand 'wifi password'? But really, that doesn't hold up. I don't know.