there's a lot of people who use cracks AFTER they buy software, which this would obviously hurt. either way its an invasion of privacy, and again this shouldn't be microsoft's call.
a lot of games run flawlessly with cracks while they crash constantly using protection. but man, that's why I repeat it as often as I can, your decission to accept or reject windows 10. don't missing something on windows7. I can't imagine to check and struggle removing windows defender, telemetry, diagtracking, etc. repeatedly on 10 after every update, a constant waste of precious time.
honestly if its not broke don't fix it.. am running 7 and am not switching, if i were to i would go to 8 if anything. don't need MS looking over my shoulder seeing what i'm doing
This would be ideal, but unfortunately it won't. Reasons for it: Human mind is like..oh well it's free, I have nothing to hide and nothing will happen concerning privacy... w10 is advertised as a new revolutionary OS, DX12 and all the stuff others have got ages ago already, in fact it is not better than w7. It runs better on old hardware because they run now plain ugly UI graphics since w8. Due to monopoly position of M$ sooner or later people have to think about migration.
UEFI Full Disk Hardware Encryption with Bitlocker is available in Windows 10, and has been available and properly working since Windows 8. You need to have compatible hardware (motherboard and SSD with edrive support), install the OS via UEFI/GPT with Secure/Fast boot on and without legacy support enabled, and clean install after taking a few first-time preparation steps for it to actually work. If properly set-up, it will turn on hardware encryption via the controller in an instant (vs. software encryption that asks you if you want it to encrypt the entire disk or not, and then takes a while to do so).
My favourite question for those who seem to think "Microsoft isn't interested in your data"; Why do you think they're collecting and archiving vast amounts of metadata from you if they aren't interested and don't have a use for it? For fun?
I don't know about FAT32, but with an NTFS GPT partition, it works. Tested it myself. Can be verified by launching command prompt as admin and typing 'manage-bde -status c:'
fat32 is the essential partition, that's from where bootx64.efi gets loaded, and forget about secureboot, a compromised efi bootloader is able to trick it easily, dig into blackhat reports, you'll find out soon it's a flaw.
For monetary gain why else?!! they can sell customers habits for big money, example ever wondered why nearly every supermarket has a "Bonus" card? they con you into thinking you are saving money by using your bonus card and they give you a tiny discount for using it, meanwhile they sell your data and make millions from selling your data, so you're not getting anything for free, example Tesco in the UK made 53 Million from selling customers shopping data, information is money! "Tesco is making £53million a year selling information on the spending habits of shoppers, including the 16million members of its Clubcard loyalty scheme. The card is presented to shoppers as a good way of gaining reward points that can be turned into money-saving vouchers. It is in fact designed to allow the supermarket giant to spy on shopping habits." I love how they call it Clubcard loyalty scheme, anything with scheme in the word stay away from it, the clue is in the bloody word.
np, its not too hard to face the bootx64.efi file can't be replaced with a compromised one on a encrypted partition even the encryption algos are still as low as 128bit and 256bit at max, at least you can tweak to enable diffuser for it.
Just to clarify, if C: is hardware-encrypted but the Recovery and EFI system partition are not encrypted and someone stole the computer, you're saying they can compromise a file on the EFI partition and then access C:?