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Microsoft abandons controversial Windows feature that shared your Wi-Fi password
Topic Started: May 19 2016, 10:33 AM (1,645 Views)
Demagogue
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http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/11/technology/microsoft-windows-wifi-sense/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool

One of Windows 10's most controversial features is getting kicked to the curb.
Microsoft announced that it will kill off Wi-Fi Sense in an upcoming Windows 10 update. The feature made a lot of folks uneasy because it shared your Wi-Fi password with all of your Facebook friends' computers, as well as those belonging to your Skype and Outlook.com contacts.
That's not what undid Wi-Fi Sense, though. Microsoft said it took a lot of manpower to maintain, and customers just weren't taking advantage of it.
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Good riddance.
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Controversial feature, indeed.
Worse is, that MS will abandon this feature not for the sake of consumers, but for their own sake.
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