I tried it at a friends place, input lag was insane and quality wasn't good. It doesn't compare favorably to Steam In Home streaming.

Steam Link is a much cheaper solution to that whole concept anyway. If they want to stream the other way (PC to console) then they need to do proper KB/M support and while they give it lip service, I doubt they will bother.

I will never install Windows 10. Check this out.
Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used

Why on Earth would anyone install an OS that so blatantly spies on it's users?

I may have gotten this link from someone here on Bluesnews yesterday.

EDIT: I stopped using Windows 10 over 6 months ago because of all the spying and MS promised that all that would be removed by release and the data was only being used to improve Windows 10. I guess that was a steaming pile of bullshit. All the shills were repeating the same PR lines. I hope that this destroys MS. F*&^ them!

This comment was edited on Jul 30, 2015, 10:08.

Frags4Fun wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 10:01:
I will never install Windows 10. Check this out.
Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used

Why on Earth would anyone install an OS that so blatantly spies on it's users?

I may have gotten this link from someone here on Bluesnews yesterday.

EDIT: I stopped using Windows 10 over 6 months ago because of all the spying and MS promised that all that would be removed by release and the data was only being used to improve Windows 10. I guess that was a steaming pile of bullshit. All the shills were repeating the same PR lines. I hope that this destroys MS. F*&^ them!

If you're that concerned about it... Install a third party software firewall.

Honestly all the things that people bitch about Windows 10. Win 10 is a great OS, I will continue to use it after installing it on Tuesday night...



As for Xbox on Win10, it'd be great to see streaming go the other way as well. Controls don't bother me as I'd be apt to use the controller for the games I'd be playing on my TV anyway.

Frags4Fun wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 10:01:
I will never install Windows 10. Check this out.
Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used

Why on Earth would anyone install an OS that so blatantly spies on it's users?

I may have gotten this link from someone here on Bluesnews yesterday.

EDIT: I stopped using Windows 10 over 6 months ago because of all the spying and MS promised that all that would be removed by release and the data was only being used to improve Windows 10. I guess that was a steaming pile of bullshit. All the shills were repeating the same PR lines. I hope that this destroys MS. F*&^ them!

yeah, you can turn all of that stuff off in the initial setup. good luck holding out though, I'm sure this whole "horseless carriage" thing is just a fad too.

It's faster and more responsive, more stable and easily the most painless OS install I've ever done. First time I've done the upgrade instead of total format reinstall, and it's flawless. On my laptop it even found drivers for things which I long gave up ever having supported, as they never worked in win7 or win 8, like half my media keys, and gestures on the mousepad. they all just work out of the box. brilliant.

On my music studio PC my DJ application Traktor runs with less ram, and less of a CPU overhead than before, resulting is less popping or static at low latencies, and better overall system stability which is a godsend for live audio computing, so far it feels as stable as a mac.

There's an entire privacy control panel dedicated to turning off things that you don't want.

It's worth checking out if you run Windows 10.

Verno wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 09:52:
I tried it at a friends place, input lag was insane and quality wasn't good. It doesn't compare favorably to Steam In Home streaming.

Steam Link is a much cheaper solution to that whole concept anyway. If they want to stream the other way (PC to console) then they need to do proper KB/M support and while they give it lip service, I doubt they will bother.

Steam In Home streaming is indeed awesome (sub 7ms latency over WIFI at 1080p)

Why on Earth would anyone install an OS that so blatantly spies on it's users?

LoL.. what doesn't collect data these days? iPhones, iPads, Android devices, NSA, they ALL do. And most have settings to turn them on or off. STEAM collects data if you let it.

I put Win 10 on my Surface Pro 3 yesterday, LOVE IT. Fast, easy, automatically switches between Desktop mode and Tablet mode.

As others have already said, go to Settings and simply turn off the "spying".

I don't think that a direct comparison between the two would work out favorably for the Xbone, but in cases where people already have an xbone and they're thinking about streaming PC games to their living room TV, having that functionality available on their xbone would remove any reason to buy a Steam box.

Are there any articles/#'s out there with how many people they feel stream games in their own house? I know I could do it, but I just always conclude I rather just play it natively for the best overall experience.

I don't understand why there is a comparison between the XBOX streaming and the Steam streaming. It's not a hardware selling feature, it's a feature someone would only use after they have the hardware. They buy the hardware because of the games. If they want to compare something maybe they should start there. I doubt that will happen though...

As for the whole Windows 10 privacy thing...Slick said it best. I can't add anything new to that.

HorrorScope wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 11:45:
Are there any articles/#'s out there with how many people they feel stream games in their own house? I know I could do it, but I just always conclude I rather just play it natively for the best overall experience.

I use streaming from my PS4 to my Vita when the wife and kids are using the TV that the PS4 is on. It works great for most of the games I own and I am glad Sony does it. I could do the Steam streaming thing but I don't ever have the need. It's a feature that's nice to know I have but my current setup just doesn't provide an opportunity to use it very often.

I provided both examples because the amount of use of either is totally determined by my own unique circumstances. I find the PS4/Vita usage to be much more likely than a Steam streaming setup, but that's because that is how my house is setup. I too would be interested to see an article that shows how much people are really using this streaming feature witheir gaming hardware.

I knew before I posted that those things could be disabled but I don't exactly trust MS or any of the alphabet soup agencies. I would prefer to wait until someone thoroughly tests to see if it is actually disabled.

I sometimes stream games just for myself; but also on twitch mainly to test my PC rig.

Slick wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 10:48:

Frags4Fun wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 10:01:
I will never install Windows 10. Check this out.
Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used

Why on Earth would anyone install an OS that so blatantly spies on it's users?

I may have gotten this link from someone here on Bluesnews yesterday.

EDIT: I stopped using Windows 10 over 6 months ago because of all the spying and MS promised that all that would be removed by release and the data was only being used to improve Windows 10. I guess that was a steaming pile of bullshit. All the shills were repeating the same PR lines. I hope that this destroys MS. F*&^ them!

yeah, you can turn all of that stuff off in the initial setup. good luck holding out though, I'm sure this whole "horseless carriage" thing is just a fad too.

This bold part is wrong.

There are telemetry / privacy settings you can NOT turn off, unless you have the Enterprise edition. These continue to transmit all installed applications, including filenames and everything else linked in any way to a MS application on your PC, to MS.

To disable what you CAN you have to spend a good few minutes scrawling through settings

https://i.imgur.com/iHge6RJ.jpg

And this still leaves you with a giant gaping security hole. Telemetry information includes IP, MAC Address, Ethernet names, Devices attached, Hardware included etc. and can be used to create a unique fingerprint of you including a complete usage statistic of everything you do on your PC.

So imo this is a huge privacy issue.

Where do you draw the line on what is acceptable data collection?
Can I put a cameras in your house or implant one in your head?

My father didn't like using credit cards and refused to carry a cellphone. He didn't like making it easy for "them" to track him. Was he a nut... maybe.

I refuse to have a Facebook account or smartphone/e-reader that sends usage statistics. The content of my communications, who my friends are, my location at every second are not for Google/Microsoft/NSA/Advertizes/general public.

You seem to be fine using an OS that tracks how you use every app on your computer, your typing habits, location, network usage, browsing history, files on your computer... It's possible to turn most(not all) of it off, have you? Most people are accepting this new data acquisition as nothing new or worrisome.

What will the next wave of acceptance bring? Where does it all end?

Last week I had a banker go through my credit card statement in front of me. He made comments on my life style(netflix, no cable) It was a little unnerving. Thank goodness I didn't have anything embracing on it.

If you haven't met anyone who doesn't agree with the way you live your life, you haven't met many people. If you haven't witnessed what is considered acceptable behavior change over time, you are still young. If you've never seen anyone willing to attack someone else based on who they are or how they live, you are oblivious. If everything there is to be known about you is available, don't ever become important. There are too many different ways to interpret reality, and too many different viewpoints for you to live a "clean" life. Enjoy being hidden in the chaff.

Otherwise Windows 10 looks like a good OS. Big improvement from past versions.

Story on how to disable telemetry

There...

I think the telemetry data is only for apps but who knows.

I hope you guys concerned about privacy in your OS are more concerned about what's happening on the web. It is trivial to fingerprint your browser and follow your unique ID all over the place - and that's just to start.

People seem to be living under this ridiculously naive assumption that the OS they are currently using is not tracking and submitting the same exact things that people are claiming Windows 10 is tracking. As if not upgrading to Windows 10 will some how save you and your "data"... LOL

Most of the EULA sections people are posting have nothing to do with the complaints being made as well... it's all quite comical.

What's more scary to me is that issues like those are generating a more apathetic tone in the public. Like "haha, this thing is spying on me" "hi nsa/facebook/whatever, here's my meta-data." And we know powerful organizations are still getting away it which is what generated the apathy (because when something goes truly unpunished, those that do it continue their practice); since all that spying activity was swept neatly under the rug. Its a very strange, scary, and fascinating part of history to be in.

HorrorScope wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 11:45:
Are there any articles/#'s out there with how many people they feel stream games in their own house? I know I could do it, but I just always conclude I rather just play it natively for the best overall experience.

I stream and glad Steam supports it. Game machine is in the living room and if wife is watching the tv I stream to the office machine. Works perfectly for that with almost no artifacts or latency. Admittedly not playing many FPSs these days.

Silicon Avatar wrote on Jul 30, 2015, 14:29:
Story on how to disable telemetry

There...

I think the telemetry data is only for apps but who knows.

I hope you guys concerned about privacy in your OS are more concerned about what's happening on the web. It is trivial to fingerprint your browser and follow your unique ID all over the place - and that's just to start.

The difference is that my web-browser doesn't know what's on my encrypted 20tb storage... but the Explorer.exe certainly does thanks to shit ton of registry hidden history and last-access nonsense.

And equally I am pretty sure that anyone who wants privacy is well aware of this -> https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Btw:
only one in 566,112 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours... sigh stupid Firefox is still shouting plugin support even if it's "click to activate" .. a bug called out for as long as this site is up