The company has launched a preview of a new enterprise-focused option that blocks Windows‘ telemetry from reaching Microsoft’s servers.
Microsoft last week launched a preview of a new enterprise-only option that blocks Windows‘ telemetry from reaching Redmond’s servers.
The option wasn’t given an official label in the July 23 announcement, but at the sign-up site was defined as „The Data Processor Service for Windows Enterprise“ – a mouthful even for Microsoft, known for interminable titling.
Marisa Rogers, the privacy officer responsible for Windows and Microsoft’s browsers, pointed out that enterprises and other organizations – universities, for the most part – now have two choices when it comes to what their PCs report to Redmond. „Enterprise customers had two options in managing their Windows 10 diagnostic data: 1) allow Microsoft to be the controller of that data… or 2) turn off diagnostic data flows altogether.“
The second option – now named „Diagnostic Data Off,“ but formerly marked with the vague „Security“ – is only available to users of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education, the most expensive of the various SKUs (stock-keeping units).
