Windows 10: Microsoft he will keep you from playing pirated games? – 01net

This is a tiny hidden phrase at the heart of the “Microsoft Services Agreement” and she begins to debate the web, after being blamed by the site Alphr. There you book VF:

“We may automatically check the version of software that you use in order to continue to provide the services, and can download updates software updates or configuration changes without bill to update, improve and expand the Services, including those that may block your access to the Services or prevent your use of counterfeit or games unauthorized terminals. “

It was enough for Web racing: So would grant Microsoft the right to review your machine to check if you have hacked games! In fact, it’s a little more complicated than that … and not necessarily as bad as it looks. Because the contract does precisely pointed to concerns that Microsoft services, not Windows 10 itself. It covers including Xbox Live, Skype or Ondredive. But does not allow for much Microsoft to go search the hard drive of your machine looking games “cracked”.

That is, as noted Tom Warren of The Verge, a simple transposition what is already on its long Redmond Xbox console, ie a way to deny access to its services via an update to the crafty who would be able to run pirated games on their machine.

Windows 10 is it too talkative?

This case knows some resonance because Windows 10 is currently at the heart of a controversy regarding compliance with personal data of its users. The site Ars Technica recently analyzed in depth the data packets exchanged between a machine running Windows 10 and Microsoft servers. And it turns out that the OS continues to send data to the same publisher when it should not do so (Cortana, and onedrive search from the Start menu cut, for example). The vast majority of the traffic analyzed by the site contained no personal data, but in some cases, an identification number of the machine is still sent to mysterious ends.

If this bothers you, you can always download DisableWinTracking a small software available on Github designed to completely cut the cord with Microsoft.