For months, Microsoft has been quietly uploading software to
millions of computers around the world under the pretext of discontinuing
Windows 10, without the media exposing this as an infringement
of privacy. To verify this fact, simply search in the Explorer
for the last modification dates of Windows directories. Actual
access to the contents is often denied.
These are definitely not patches or security updates. Rather, the company
is trying to gain permanent access to the computer's content. Therefore,
its rarely used Edge browser and even the Internet Explorer,
which officially was discontinued years ago, are repeatedly updated.
Although Edge is supposed to be an essential system component,
its files are not located in the Windows directory but hidden
under Microsoft/Edge in four directories, including a dedicated
location for updates.
If this infiltration is not prevented, which is only possible with massive
modifications of the settings and even then not completely, the functionality
of software that has been running smoothly for years will be disrupted,
apparently with the goal of forcing the purchase of Microsoft
products.
The options offered for uninstalling or deactivating updates are deceptive:
Either the supposedly deleted components remain in the system and continue
to be updated in the background (again check in the Explorer),
or Microsoft leaves online loopholes open via apps like Xbox.
Ultimately, this insidious approach aims at no longer selling licenses,
but only subscriptions that must be renewed regularly. To achieve this,
the company needs unrestricted and uncontrolled access, which also allows
for the computer to be locked down remotely.
Anyone who is acting so insidiously must face the massive suspicion
that such intrusions could also be used to steal private data. The justification
that all this is being done solely for the user's security sounds exactly
like the doublespeak from the novel 1984: No hacker is as dangerous
as the world's largest software company, which demands access to all
computers running its operating system.
The only way out of this attempted blackmail is a strict hardware separation
into an online communication and an offline work unit. The former should
run on an older, stable version of Windows, even if this brings
disadvantages, e.g., in terms of performance.
Microsoft knows that this is unthinkable or impractical for
many people these days, when everything is uploaded to the cloud without
hesitation, and is rubbing its hands together. This way, the desperate
company, which hasn't produced any innovative software in a generation,
believes it can at least maintain its dominance in operating systems,
especially since Apple offers no real alternative. But anyone
who has to resort to such pathetic tricks will fail, because they can
neither prevent technological progress nor the attention of critical
customers: sooner or later every monopoly is bound to collapse.
