Microsoft as we published in the morning, announced that the new Windows 10 operating system is installed in over 200 million devices, which leaked a week earlier.
The company said Windows 10 is its fastest growing operating system to date (even Windows 7).
Considering that Window 10 is available for free today to existing Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 users, the numbers announced by the company are not surprising.
In the same publication, the company has revealed some elements that will cause concern to those worried about their privacy. If you read the article carefully, you'll notice that Microsoft provides aggregated usage statistics for more than just time modeof the operating system, but also information about the individual programs running on it.
In particular, the following elements are listed to demonstrate the popularity of the new Windows 10 operating system:
- Users spent more than 11 billion hours on Window 10 in December 2015.
- 44500000000 minutes spent on Microsoft Edge across all Windows 10 devices in December 2015 (0.710 million hours).
- Cortana users made more than 2,5 billions of questions since it was launched.
- More than 82 photos have been viewed by WindUws 10 for photos
- Windows 10 gamers spent more than 4.000.000.000 hours playing PC games.
- Gamers broadcast over 6.600.000 hours of Xbox One games on Windows Window 10 computers.
- There are approximately 30% more Bing search queries than Windows 10 devices compared to previous versions of Windows.
Statistics show that Microsoft can collect more data than originally believed. Naturally no one knows exactly what, but now it is clear that the company collects information on the use of individual applications and programs in Windows at least.
The real question is how many details does the company collect? For example, do Windows 10 record everything Edge users do, or the questions they make in Cortana?
According to Microsoft, the collection data πραγματοποιείται για το γενικότερο καλό. Χρησιμοποιούν τα δεδομένα για να κάνουν το product to work better and according to the post all the above items are for Microsoft only.
However, Microsoft does not disclose detailed information about what it collects exactly and for what purpose.
But we left it really good for the end: The company said it does not collect data from users who have encrypted their systems.
Those who follow his posts iGuRu.gr they will know that with the"Windows 10: encryption keys are on the company's servers. "
