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This is nothing to do with the telemetry in Windows 10.

It's a very particular complaint about the telemetry in Windows 10 that Microsoft fired their QA employees, feed telemetry into an AI blackbox and no human looks at it and therefore doesn't fix things people want fixing.

This being a different system, on a different product, for a different purpose, used differently, explicitly for humans to look at, is different.




>> This being a different system, on a different product, for a different purpose, used differently, explicitly for humans to look at, is different.

No, it is about Microsoft bringing Microsoft-style ethics and human resource practices to their customers. Same basic methodology, slightly different purpose.

>> Microsoft fired their QA employees, feed telemetry into an AI blackbox and no human looks at it and therefore doesn't fix things people want fixing.

Exactly. Think about how much money Microsoft has saved by firing the QA employees. Think about how much money Microsoft could save their customers by identifying under-performing employees with Microsoft-provided metrics and AI.




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