It doesn't help when they put ads on the service. Amazon Prime Video has started randomly putting ads between show which is annoying but they also have copied what older ads used to do which is pump of the volume for ad which is really annoying.

Most important fact, you can't trust any thing a slashdot user with a 4 digit UID says.

The defective Lenovo defaults also block Windows reinstalls... In other words this is Lenovo's fault.

Funny none of my network monitoring systems show this data transfer. Could it be that Microsoft hacked my Cisco switch, my router, and the Linux VM I use for monitoring?

You can't trust people with low UIDs!

Are you a young Earth creationist?

Ken Ham has lots of followers but that doesn't make most all of what he says true.

Why say anything it isn't like you are going to listen or act on our concerns.

Do you have the same concerns about evolution?

I searched for VLC, 7-Zip, and Firefox on Bing and the official site was the first one in the results list each time and was labeled as such.

So should government fund Young Earth Creationism "Research" / Intelligent Design research?

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Where is that from?

Because if you say anything positive about Microsoft you are evil, a shill, etc....

No you deserve -42 for believing a /. headline about Microsoft. The article says the following at the bottom, "On the other hand the OS support date is reset with any never version of the OS, so a Windows Phone 8.5 or 9 update in November 2013 would bring along its own 18 month of security updates. Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system."