The Windows 10 misinformation machine fires up again
Summary
Gordon Kelly of Forbes is at it again, pushing his unique blend of scary words about Windows 10, mixed with an absolutely overwhelming lack of knowledge about the underlying technologies. I thought we had seen the last of Gordon three years ago, when he slinked away after credulously hyping some gibberish about Windows 10 telemetry and then writing the most incomprehensible retraction ever. Over the weekend, a reader sent me a link to a story he had found on the front page of Google News, and when I saw the headline I knew it could only have sprung from Mr. Kellys keyboard: "Microsoft Issues Warning For 50M Windows 10 Users. For those who dont understand how unusual that configuration is, note that it applies only to Windows 10 Enterprise and that it can be set only using Group Policy on corporate networks or by manually editing the registry. * As usual, I am loathe to link directly to Mr. Kellys particular brand of claptrap, but if you insist on reading the article in question, click the asterisk at the beginning of this footnote.