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Dealing with the privacy concerns posed by Windows 10 and upgrading an old PC to it

August 12, 2015 Eric Legge 0

Microsoft’s terms and conditions for the use of Windows 10 have raised widespread concerns that it is invading the user’s privacy as deeply as possible, […]

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Is Windows 10 a free upgrade because its terms and conditions allow Microsoft to collect your private data

August 5, 2015 Eric Legge 0

Windows 10, officially release on July 29, 2015, has terms and conditions, which consist of a Privacy Policy and Service Agreement that users have to […]

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How to reserve Windows 10 free of charge if your computer runs Win7/8.1

July 31, 2015 Eric Legge 0

Windows 10 has been released. It is a 3GB download that, as with other Windows updates, will remember where to resume if you turn off […]

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How to obtain your free upgrade to Windows 10 if you have a Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1 PC

July 26, 2015 Eric Legge 0

According to Microsoft, all desktop, laptop and tablets that are running Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 are capable of upgrading to Windows 10. The […]

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Google Photos mines your personal data for advertising and other purposes

June 5, 2015 Eric Legge 0

The new free app from Google called Google Photos looks like just another method of mining your personal data for advertising and other purposes What […]

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Microsoft’s new web browser is called Edge

May 5, 2015 Eric Legge 0

Project Spartan has come up with a name for the web browser that will come with Windows 10, due out in the summer, and eventually […]

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Why Windows users should try using a free disto of Linux such as Ubuntu

April 12, 2015 Eric Legge 0

Linux is is open-source operating created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish American software engineer, first released in 1991. The Linux kernel is the core of […]

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Belgian researchers expose Facebook’s illegal use of tracking cookies

April 1, 2015 Eric Legge 0

A report by Belgian researchers, base at the University of Leuven and a university in Brussels, has accused Facebook of breaching EU privacy laws by […]

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Windows PowerShell: What it is and how to use it

March 10, 2015 Eric Legge 0

What Windows PowerShell is and how to use it Windows PowerShell, initially introduced in 2008 during the reign of Windows Vista, is a command-line tool […]

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It is not yet possible to find out if the NSA spyware is on a computer’s hard disk drive

March 4, 2015 Eric Legge 0

Kaspersky Lab discovered the spyware that infects hard disk, SSD or flash drives by reprogramming the drive firmware, which is the permanent software installed on […]

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