Scrapped Windows 10 Update Available Again After Privacy Issues Fixed

Microsoft has come clean about the action it recently took to pull the eagerly anticipated first major Windows 10 Update

Scrapped Windows 10 Update Available Again After Privacy Issues Fixed

It wasn’t until the Windows 10 Update for November  was also de-listed on the ordinary updates page as well that eyebrows were fully raised by many, however.

Many Windows 10 users already circumspect of what Microsoft does and doesn’t in regards to user privacy,Microsoft are also keenly aware that any changes they make to privacy settings are being closely watched. Pulling the the Windows 10 November Update was probably a really smart move on their part.

“Recently we learned of an issue that could have impacted an extremely small number of people who had already installed Windows 10 and applied the November update,” Microsoft stated. ‘It will not impact future installs of the November update, which is available today.”

The Windows 10 update has now been fully restored and users should now have had these particular privacyconcerns firmly put to bed.

For those who are interested, the four settings in question were:

• Let apps use my advertising ID,
• Turn on SmartScreen Filter for web content,
• Let apps run in the background and,
• Sync with devices.

And for those people who may have already installed the November update (Version 1511),  before it got yanked, can check whether their privacy settings have been altered  by going to Settings, Privacy and then changing the following options:

• Select General to adjust the advertising ID and SmartScreen Filter.

• Select Other devices to adjust your Sync with devices settings.

• Select Background apps to review the applications set to run in the background.

Microsoft have stressed that only a ‘small number’ of users should have been affected by the the Windows 10 Update.