![]() This KB ( 3080149) was posted in May related to updates to the diagnostics service for Windows 7 & 8.1 systems that participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), which is an opt-in, optional program… Our use of CEIP data to help improve and diagnose Windows 7 and 8.1 products has not changed from what is described in the privacy statements for those versions of the operating system. Has Microsoft started running spy sorties on Windows 7 and 8.1 systems? Judging from the headlines, it seems a foregone conclusion, but the facts are a little less clickbait worthy.īogdan Popa at Softpedia received an official statement from Microsoft last week. He quotes it as saying: It's so bad that I'm deluged with emails and phone calls from readers, friends, neighbors, and family members, all asking if they should apply updates to Windows 7 and 8.1 because of the "spy programs." They're genuinely concerned - and they should be. Others, including several widely read mainstream publications, have pointed to their statements and claimed or implied that the Windows 10 privacy-busting "disease" has been thrust onto Win7 and Win8.1 customers. What Tkachenko and Brinkmann revealed is, quite literally, true - though many on the Windows beat have dismissed their claims as overblown or bordering on irrational. 28, Martin Brinkmann at posted a follow-up that confirmed several details. In at least one case, the spying patches transmit data through hard-coded servers, bypassing the Hosts file and making it even harder to block their activity. 24, when Sergey Tkachenko at published an incendiary discovery: Four recent Windows 7 and 8.1 patches - KB 3022345, 3068708, 3075249, and 3080149 - were sending a potful of data to Microsoft's servers. But a much larger part of the story may sound familiar to any experienced Windows or Office user. ![]() I’ll keep you posted on the big picture here in the Woody on Windows blog, with the full insider baseball play-by-play on the AskWoody Lounge.Conspiracy theories are gaining steam as accusations about Microsoft "spy patches" heat up. As many of you know, I have lots of questions about the settings in the expanded screen, but it’s likely Microsoft will answer some of those questions shortly. This expanded screen corresponds, more or less, with the settings available in the new Version 1703 Group Policies for Defer Windows Update. The expanded screen reverts to the original version (first screenshot) if you nudge it. You have to watch closely for the change. You may have to flip it several times, but at some point you’ll see an expanded screen like that in the second screenshot. Try flipping the Pause Updates slider from Off to On and back to Off again. But there’s more hidden away - an unexpected development. Many of us were expecting Microsoft to put a Pause Updates control in the Creators Update Settings app, at least for Win10 Pro/Enterprise. ![]() ![]() “Pause feature updates” is in the Select when Feature Updates are received policy “Pause quality updates” is in the Select when Quality Updates are received policy.) (Type gpedit in the Cortana search box, click Edit group policy/Control Panel, navigate to Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Defer Windows Update. It bubbles up to the Settings app and combines two settings that are buried in Version 1607 Group Policies.
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