Ever since Microsoft launched Windows 10, privacy advocates and concerned users have loudly argued that the firm needed to improve and clarify its privacy policies. To date, the company has mostly ...

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The European Data Protection Supervisor found that the European Commission failed to comply with data protection rules when using Microsoft 365, raising fresh questions about how Microsoft handles ...

A new utility called SharpApp has been released that helps you debloat and increase privacy in Windows 10 by uninstalling preinstalled apps and disabling various telemetry settings. Developed by ...

The policy change was reported by Australian news site ARN yesterday. Microsoft and FireEye recently agreed to embark on a new joint effort to improve the security of Windows 10. Microsoft will ...

The company has launched a preview of a new enterprise-focused option that blocks Windows' telemetry from reaching Microsoft's servers. Microsoft last week launched a preview of a new enterprise-only ...

If there's one message to take away from the latest batch of changes to diagnostic data collection rolling out in Windows 10 preview editions, it's this: Don't call it telemetry. The most visible ...

Windows 10 has come under fire recently for a who laundry list of problems with the May 2020 Update. Microsoft has been working overtime to address all of the outstanding issues, but new ones ...

The company’s changes to its diagnostic data collection settings debuted in a recent Insider build, implying that they won’t make it into the impending spring upgrade. Microsoft last week said it ...

As expected, Windows Update dropped off several packages of security and reliability fixes for Windows 7 earlier this week, part of the normal Patch Tuesday delivery cycle for every version of Windows ...

These are services I can safely disable to make Windows more responsive.