Microsoft Updates Windows 10 Store with Background Color Themes

Today, Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group, attempts to quell privacy fears regarding Windows 10.

After Windows 10 was released this summer, people said the operating system was spying on users and collecting data for extraneous purposes.

What Microsoft doesn’t collect for diagnostics and application improvement: any content or files, nor any information that could identify a user, such as name, email address or account ID.

Those running Windows 10 Pro or Windows 10 Home versions will not be able to turn off the data collection from Microsoft.

From the very beginning, we designed Windows 10 with two straightforward privacy principles in mind: 1. It’s a effect of the new era of cloud computing, and the personalised, streamlined experience tech companies are offering as they search for that innovative edge to draw users to their software. Myerson writes that enterprise users will have the option to disable the telemetry later this year, though the company strongly recommends against it. When Ars asked what that means, it said simply that Enterprise users will still have opt-out ability, though it’s not actually part of the upcoming feature update.

Basically, Windows 10 gathers personalization and telemetry data.

Are we really in control of personalisation data?

Microsoft takes a sample of your typed or handwritten words to create a personalized dictionary and give text suggestions and autocorrections. These settings can be changed in Settings Privacy Speech, inking, & typing. Though this is an easy and safe process, you never know what might accidentally go wrong!

With that said, I understand both consumers and pundits criticising Microsoft over privacy setting in the newest Windows.

Microsoft has just rolled out an update for the Windows 10 store that brings several new subtle changes that should not only improve the interface of the app but also add new authentication methods to block unauthorized purchases.

Default apps: Windows 10 removes default file associations – so if you’ve spent time meticulously assigning software to certain apps, there’s a chance you’ll have to do it all again.

As mentioned above, Ars’s testing has shown even with the most restricted privacy settings, Windows 10 can’t seem to stop babbling to Microsoft’s servers.

Evernote uses green, VLC uses orange, and so on, so not only that the store now looks better but this could also help make everything more intuitive because you always know what app you are about to install. By enhancing the upgrade experience for users, they stand to keep users on-side and, crucially, help us use their software safely and productively.