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Files from my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop are now showing up in Windows 11. As far as I’m concerned this is illegal personal data theft. MY Linux installation has no connection to Microsoft or windows 11. I will be sending Windows 11 feedback to U.S. Senators instead of the Feedback Hub from now on. Who knows what loophole they are hiding behind?

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Cybertooth

I didn’t find the lengthy listing of the update schedules very interesting, but the information on what new updates are and how they work is golden! It’s possible to find some information on how Windows 11 updates work, but random finding of articles like “Choose where to store files in the cloud” requires a lot of luck. “Making sense of Windows 11’s 2023 updates” has high value as Microsoft continues to leave customer communications in the incomplete and random location categories.

URL for above article (there must be a much better way to do this! My next Google):

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/choose-where-to-store-files-in-the-cloud-7d6de218-2ed5-47ad-82a8-d093312a7340#:~:text=There%20are%20three%20places%20where,and%20Microsoft%20365%20team%20sites.

So I appreciate what you are doing, but why aren’t there more people complaining about their Windows 11 passwords showing up on another users PC?   This is a desktop set up with Windows 11 and a different Microsoft Account!  What if their Desktop get stolen with more than 100 of my passwords, which are also on their tablet?

That other computer also has all my browser history in their Edge history.  This must be really hated by some people, or they didn’t make a huge mistake and update their desktops to Windows 11.

Another issue is that I provided feedback about 6 months ago that fake files were being created in my desktop website files.  Probably by OneDrive?  So, if I “save all” when I update my very large website (~5,000 photos and 130+ videos) will the fake files also be transferred to my website host?

This is just a few of the everyday Windows 11 problems I have.  Seems like no one else is using Windows 11?  I know other engineers, marketing managers, and consultants that are totally avoiding Windows 11 because professionals working together on million-dollar projects have to share a lot of files with many other users, so Windows 10 is the only acceptable operating system at this time.

Large companies are currently blocked from Windows 11, except for their IT departments?  Microsoft has been “taking” copies of my photos since before 2012.  Many of them were deleted since I only get about 50% publishable images, but they are all in OneDrive. I don’t have time to look thru 37,000+ images to clean up the mess.

Yesterday I provided feedback to Microsoft that their software development process was conceptually defective.  There are other operating system companies that utilize a far superior methodology to develop and maintain their software.  My issues cover a wide variety of problems, including, but not limited to, maintaining a website with VS Code.  I do not use an IDE, but write all of the website code with HTML and CSS.  Current Windows 11, VS Code, and OneDrive make considerable headaches as it seems that there is no consideration for the way I create and maintain a website.  The Microsoft Backup disaster only shows how deep the trouble goes.  My hopes that Microsoft management can fix this problem are now fading much faster.  Please keep up your investigations and reporting the pros and cons.  We can only hope that things get better and not worse.

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Cybertooth, Mothy

Is Windows 11 really a disaster?  You’ve got to be kidding!  I’ve been using Windows 11 to accomplish daily work with Internet Searches, Email, and updating a huge Website.  It couldn’t possibly be true, but basic functions of Office (Microsoft 365), Windows 11, OneDrive and AI (fake intelligence) are so bad foreign tech experts must have infiltrated Microsoft to destroy Windows.  What’s 10 times worse than disaster?

Nothing unusual about that! The pattern I see is: When a new Windows version appears, you start with 1/2 or less of previous version benefits and features and then have to live with slowly improving beta software for about 5 years. Next you have a fairly well working system for about 2 years until the next new Windows version installs and then the cycle repeats. There seems to be no end to this pattern. Why expect more?

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wavy

If your using the windows update version, it should be same or better than 10, if you are using the Windows Insider builds, you are getting what you are asking for.  I heard that there is a ton of test and data collecting overhead in the beta builds . . . right or wrong?

[steve1916]

Windows 10X – and all the other technologies leading up to it:  Isn’t it, in a general overview, just another attempt to disguise Windows original fatal flaw of “apps sharing support files with other apps’?  It appears that apps that are complete and isolated from all other apps just run better?  Easier to install and uninstall, etc.

Isn’t this just what Linux did many, many, many years ago?  So all the other eye-candy and folding screen nonsense is just, once again, to disguise fixing Windows worst idea since  HDD became enormous and there is no longer a need to save disk space and code quality, reliability, functionality, and maybe even security will improve?

That’s yet to be determined since syncing, sharing, and massive theft of personal data is the mantra of every big software company ensuring that one hack will compromise 10 to 20 devices.  For this worst case scenario I’d  be extremely happy to be proven totally WRONG!

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Kranium

How does all this relate to IDE web maintenance for those that use FTP?  I’m  tired of getting functional applications being abandoned, changes just to make changes, complicated replacements that fail, hundreds of mobile apps that are worthless, personal data being stolen by mobile business and nearly everyone else including the DMV and cities that install red light cameras instead of fixing defective traffic control problems.  It doesn’t take an engineer or a Six Sigma project to figure out that 29,000 tickets in a year at one location means that something is wrong.  This is not a rant, because nearly the entire software industry is broken.  Why does a Windows Update that doesn’t break something happen only once or twice a year?  No more apps, no more business emails, no more products or services that only consider revenue generation as their primary goal along with misleading and deceptive advertising.  A  general overview that identifies who should benefit from any new technology would allow a lot of people to determine if they need to read the article and all the responses.

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Mr. Austin, Elly, johnf

I installed 1903 on a desktop w/o touch screen monitor and started exploring.  In Action Center I clicked on “Compress”. I may have also activated night light, but suddenly the desktop was scrambled and the Start Menu was blown apart and windows controls (upper right corner) were there or not there and worked or didn’t work.  I thought the whole O/S had blown up.  I finally made it back to the Action Center and randomly clicked on “Expand” and suddenly the old familiar desktop appeared.  Then it all made sense, 1903 had thought my desktop was a touch screen tablet.  Makes no sense at all why “Compress” would completely scramble a desktop display and trash window controls.  And I managed to provide Microsoft feedback without any nasty expletives.  Hope you see this before clicking on the “link of death”.

In addition to all the issues noted in other posts, its still to heavy to use as a tablet and too “floppy” to use as a laptop. The fact that Microsoft was totally oblivious to the ergonomics of a tablet is simply beyond belief. When someone saturates the market with an excellent design, you have to meet all their features and benefits, which becomes the baseline, and then do something that makes a new product stand out. Even the kid with a lemonade stand down the street knows that. The Surface 3 just proves putting together 100 of the worlds smartest people can result in an idiots folly. Then again other people will question my assumption on the number of smart people and maybe they are right. Does not matter, consumers will vote with their checkbook and that is the final answer!

GOODBYE, have a nice day!

Don’t listen to the nonsense about not doing articles on Linux/Ubuntu! Microsoft created a very poor product called Surface RT, which I own and hate. It is not useable for many reasons and their $900 million write-off supports my conclusions. Next, Windows 8 was a complete debacle. It’s obvious that Mr. Gates was the whole company, but he went off the deep end with draconian business practices which resulted in anti-trust lawsuits by the government. OK, so nothing is perfect, but the continued lack of security, even the government can’t keep the White House computer from being hacked, is a concern to me because it’s just a matter of time till the exponentially growing ID theft and hacking catches up with the general public. More than likely your personal data including SSN are in files on the black market right now and will be abused in the future.

I have 11 computers ranging from old to the newest and fastest. I hate the Microsoft Account because it is only a matter of time until Microsoft gets hacked. I set up my computers to do different tasks, financial, email, RC simulaltion, video editing, Internet. Windows provides lots of tools and functionality thru RDC, Home Group, etc, but security and reliability have made it more important to keep systems isolated on the LAN and from the Internet. If security does not improve, I will not trust Microsoft to keep Microsoft Account safe and my current option is to switch to Linux, specifically Ubuntu or another distribution if it is more secure. Security is far more important than anyone thinks and if not addressed you will see total chaos in our future infrastructure. Imagine if TV, power grid, public transportation, medical records, financial companies, and energy systems all get compromised or destroyed. If politics, greed, and stupidity continue to dominate rational thinking, the future will be painful. If big corporations continue to elect our representatives and their only priority is rules to benefit the rich and powerful, then we are destined to a rude awakening.

OK, some things are better, but today in Windows 10 I found my MasterCard number associated to my Microsoft Account without my permission. I think I bought a copy of Windows 7 online (years ago?). This is the kind of activity that can significantly increase risks of ID theft. I finally found a way to delete the card from the account, but I suspect the data is still on Microsoft servers. In my mind my data has been stolen and inappropriately exposed to more risk. Are we now going to have to start reporting card data stolen and cancel accounts frequently? Yes, in most cases the issues are small, but I’d rather not have the headaches. Companies like Comcast that keep your SSN cannot be trusted. It’s just a question of when.

I think you are right, the hardware (new processors and SSD) gets most of the credit for speed. UEFI gets credit for security. Websites get most of the credit for lack of security.