windows 10 is installed on 18% of PCs, according to statcounter
there are about 2 billion PCs existing, which means that there are 360 million windows 10 machines
assuming a windows 10 machine sends 20 mbytes of data each day, this means that MS gets send about 7500 terabytes of data each day. This means that in a month, MS gets 225 petabytes of data. Before adoption of windows was lower, so i am going to approximate that MS has about 1500 petabytes of data. So, where the fuck does MS store 1500 petabytes of data? And if we all are going to install windows 10, won't they run out of HDDs to store our data on?
>>54461105
Pretend they're Google.
>>54461105
They probably compress that data. I'd image there are quite a few redundancies that Huffman encoding would take care of.
>>54461126
won't that require insane processing power and electricity? Like maybe simply buying HDDs will end up cheaper.
>>54461105
They have Cortano AI that only keeps useful stuff
>>54461105
But they don't collect 20 mbytes each day, they only collect it once / per fresh install of windows 10.
Daily collections are kilobytes of text data.
Once they have gathered/reselled all the profitable ad-related stuff, they store it on the US-taxpayer-funded NSA servers.
Remember guys, privatize profits, nationalize losses.
>only 20 mbytes/day
According to /g/ Windows 10 is constantly phoning home, sending amongst other things screenshots, the contents of your files and emails, the programs you're using and more. That's way more than 20 MB! ;)
Probably they have a secret facility together with the NSA and the CIA that uses technology stolen from aliens that crashed on american soil.
>>54461177
Depends on who's compressing. Since they can freely transmit data to/from Windows 10 machines, couldn't they offload the processing power to customers' machines?
Compressing data on-the-fly can help with disk transfer rates, too. This situation is familiar to anyone that has worked with large video files.
>>54461403
If only you knew how right you were
>>54461105
They are not that stupid to collect and store same things in multiple duplications. Much likely they do initial data collection and then only add small amounts of information about the specific and filtered changes in a specific system - nobody is making 20mb-log of worth-to-mention changes on their PC in a day or even in a year.
>>54461357
b-but /g/ said that they take a screenshot every 30 minutes and other shit
>>54461454
Microsoft is not dumb, they take all the data they need about you in few text lines that are very relevant for them.
Why would they take a screenshot when they can receive a list of all installed software..
>>54461105
Microsoft is part of NSA's mass surveillance program "PRISM":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Microsoft informs the NSA about bugs before fixing them:
https://archive.is/OBGB1
Microsoft openly offeres cloud data to support PRISM:
https://archive.is/tW6fu
Microsoft has backdoored its disk encryption:
https://archive.is/2XIvX
https://archive.is/qLRZx
Windows snoops on the users' files, text input, voice input,
location, contacts, calendar records and web browsing history,
even after related settings are turned off:
https://archive.is/thsGd
https://archive.is/sz1nt
https://archive.is/g3QdQ
https://archive.is/ko469
https://archive.is/l6pmO
https://archive.is/zK93U
Micrcrosoft automatically downloads Windows 10 on PCs running
Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (between 3.5GB and 6GB), even if
users have not opted-in:
http://archive.is/CEvKh
Windows 10 scans for illegal/pirated software:
https://archive.is/vhjwm
https://archive.is/2jehd
https://archive.is/KQsBh
Microsoft proudly presents surveillance statistics:
https://archive.is/MB0Yy
> Over 82 billion photos viewed.
> Gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games.
> 44.5 billion minutes/month spent in Microsoft Edge.
> Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
> Windows 10 now active on over 200 million devices.
>>54461492
Thanks for posting this.
>>54461526
oops i meant >>54461492
>>54461403
20 mbytes is A LOT of information. Ofc, not for video or a screenshot, but for plain text log it's nearly 20 000 000 characters.
>>54461403
you're wrong about aliens. The advanced technology the US government has first came from the German nazi scientists during WW2, ever since then the US government has been developing computer tech, vehicles and weapons so advanced that you'd think you were living in a Star Trek movie.
>>54461403
b-but they are sending all that back, why would that video in russian lie to me? i even have the same program they used to break RSA encryption instantly.
It's not like they store every single bit sent, that's idiotic to think. They likely have a ranking system that allows them to store important data per person.
>>54462252
MS isn't building an information profile on all of its users though. The data it keeps is standard in facilitating online transactions and it occasionally sends some anonymous telemetry to assist in debugging and app profiling
>>54461105
Guess why MS is investing in DNA storange technology
>>54462685
No, the NSA is building the database.
MS just provides the data. Willingly.
>>54461105
18% PC, where 98% of those aren't sold to people .
>>54461105
>assuming a windows 10 machine sends 20 mbytes of data each day
Why do you assume it's this much?
It could be a few 3 or 4 MB, which cuts down the size by 5 or 7.
Now what if they're sending only metadata?
Also, the way statcounter works, it's impossible to tell whether all of those 360M pc's have that phone-home feature turned on
