The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue'

snydeq writes "Changes in Microsoft's forthcoming upgrade to Windows 8 reveal the dark underbelly of Microsoft's evolving agenda, one that finds pieces of Windows 8 inexplicably disappearing and a new feature that allows Microsoft to track your local searches cropping up, InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard reports. 'As Windows 8.1 Milestone Preview testers push and prod their way into the dark corners of Windows 8.1 "Blue," they're finding a bunch of things that go bump in the night. From new and likely unwelcome features, to nudges into the Microsoft data tracking sphere, to entire lopped-off pieces of Windows 8, it looks like Microsoft is changing Windows to further its own agenda.'" A lot of the stuff the article gripes about are what Google has been doing for ages with Android: requiring a Microsoft account, funneling users to their services first, tracking your system usage, etc.

what??

[phantomfive]

A lot of the stuff the article gripes about are what Google has been doing for ages with Android:

That doesn't make me feel better......

I don't know about you...

[klingers48]

But the last time I did a local search on my PC's C:\ drive and didn't have ads all up in my shit, it just felt like something was missing.

I'm just glad Microsoft was listening.