Personally, I just don't have cameras plugged in at all, which I would care about someone seeing the feed from. I actually do have more than one running and into my LAN with outside net access (i.e. I know, I might as well put them on a public website for the minimal security possible). They cover security angles tho, and honestly? If I have security cameras pointed in ways I wouldn't want outsiders to see...and I don't live in a little museum or something? I'm probably needing a lot more than better security anyway. A shrink perhaps...lol.
Mi casa es su casa...if they want to be that bored watching concrete bake and cool, or grass grow in the backyard. They might even get a real thrill once in awhile as a dragonfly checks out the lense!
Well, I'd worry about all this...if Microsoft had any record of success beyond captive audience tactics up to now? The fact is..they haven't and nothing in their past suggests that will change for the future. Sure...they took on Government partners in recent years, but this makes the above point worse for them..not better. They took shakey track records and brought in a partner with Fail as its middle name for daily result is all they did.
I'll avoid 10 for now because Microshaft NEVER releases a finished product, outside games maybe, and that is REAL debatable depending on the game being talked about. Professional software tho? Good god..they had updates IMPORTANT TO HAVE on the *DAY* of release. That should say everything like a book, right there. lol......
I'm not really TOO overly worried about it, since I've discovered how to upgrade Win8 machines to Win7 or Linux, and have learned what to look for and insist on a demonstration of if I have to ever buy a Win10 machine off the shelf for conversion into a useful computer via an installation of an unborked operating system. The only thing now holding me back from a wholesale migration to Linux is software availability - some software I need works only in Windows. Over time, that will get to be less important as said software STOPS working in Windows - at that point it won't matter if there is a Linux version or not.
On Win8 machines that shipped, M$ required that Secure Boot and UEFI could be disabled for legacy compatibility, even though they shipped enabled. You can turn them off on such machines and install what you want there. M$ is "leaving it up to the individual OEMs" whether or not to allow disabling them on Windows 10 machines, so any of those I take out of a store will have already passed my own little usefulness test - reboot, go into "BIOS", and see if there are options to disable those two little problems. If the store won't allow that, I'll just move along to one that will.
My guess is that OEMs like Dell are so far into M$ pockets they could scratch Bill Gate's ankles, and so will NOT be allowing legacy compatibility on Win10 machines, but I don't yet know that for fact - still, if I wanted a Dell, I'd grab one with Win8 on it right now, before they get gone, just to be safe. Other OEMs is anyone's guess, but surely there will still be a niche for Linux and the like that gives the end user a choice., not to mention builds frm scratch - mother board manufacturers have no idea which system will ultimately be running through their boards, and so are not likely to lock them into Win10 only.
Windows 10..the last Windows ever? Oh.. please.. is that a promise??
According to Microsoft it is. One of the spokesmodels alluded to that some time ago when she said "eventually, 'what version of Windows are you running?' will be a nonsensical question - there will only be one version". That version is to be "Windows 10" with whatever updates are forced into it by the end of life for the previous versions of Windows, leaving just that one standing. The recent Windows 10 commercial with the babies who will "grow up using Windows 10" tends to confirm that plan. Microsoft is calling it "Windows as a Service", but I still believe it's going to morph into "Windows by Subscription" instead.
I think we're starting to buy their fantasy marketing hype tho, and tending to feed into it. In REAL TRACK RECORD ...what is Microsoft to fear, except for those who have work they don't want to LOSE in a system crash? Now, I fear them A LOT at times like that.
What is Microsoft to fear? Roughly 90% of all personal and business desktop computers on Earth, and grabbing at more.
Personally, I just don't have cameras plugged in at all, which I would care about someone seeing the feed from. I actually do have more than one running and into my LAN with outside net access (i.e. I know, I might as well put them on a public website for the minimal security possible). They cover security angles tho, and honestly? If I have security cameras pointed in ways I wouldn't want outsiders to see...and I don't live in a little museum or something? I'm probably needing a lot more than better security anyway. A shrink perhaps...lol.
Mi casa es su casa...if they want to be that bored watching concrete bake and cool, or grass grow in the backyard. They might even get a real thrill once in awhile as a dragonfly checks out the lense!
I don't have any plugged into desktop computers, either, but those pesky laptops tend to come with them built in as standard these days, and microphones, too.
Personally, I just don't have cameras plugged in at all, which I would care about someone seeing the feed from. I actually do have more than one running and into my LAN with outside net access (i.e. I know, I might as well put them on a public website for the minimal security possible). They cover security angles tho, and honestly? If I have security cameras pointed in ways I wouldn't want outsiders to see...and I don't live in a little museum or something? I'm probably needing a lot more than better security anyway. A shrink perhaps...lol.
Mi casa es su casa...if they want to be that bored watching concrete bake and cool, or grass grow in the backyard. They might even get a real thrill once in awhile as a dragonfly checks out the lense!
I don't have any plugged into desktop computers, either, but those pesky laptops tend to come with them built in as standard these days, and microphones, too.
Indeed, they do. They seem to assume we all have an ego a truck is required to carry (along side our selfie collections..right?). I suppose I have no more to add for the laptop side than what everyone else has added. Electrical tape does wonders..and blends with the black most case housings seem to be around the cameras.