Forum Discussion
Office 365 "The fine print" popup message - is it legitimate?
Peter/Michael,
Great tip on the restore! About an hour ago the Mrs. called me over in a panic, she didn't know what to make of the popup (she had just downloaded meeting minutes from a friend when it happened) but knew enough not accept anything she hadn't intentionally accessed. I was a bit concerned because I have a legit copy of Office 2016 Pro and I accepted the EULA a couple years ago.
Anyway, my most recent restore point was and Automatic Restore Point from yesterday about 10 am. Rather that just restoring it, I checked what would be affected. Only one program/driver would roll back "Microsoft Office Pro....16.0.10325.20082"! I suspect we has a smoking gun.
What pisses me off ever further is the amount of info I had to let MS snoop into just to post here. I am one grumpy old man right now - will post restore results later today.
- I suspect that rolling back won't be a permenant solution as Windows Update will eventually download and install the update that has caused the pop up.
But Microsoft might fix the issue or withdraw the update which would stop that from happening.
Time will tell?
Cheers
DamienHi Damien,
Yes indeed time will tell, and I suspect I will have to decide if I want to give MS additional permissions to tip toe through my computers or take a hard look at LibreOffice.
I have a potential side effect of the role back to a previous date (or should I say the from receipt of the original Fine Print Popup that escaped the rollback?) Post roleback, my wife's sign in can no longer access Microsoft news, weather, or money from her tiles. Click and the app appears to open and then poof, it is gone. My sign in and admin are fine. Have reset/repaired MS Store, News, Weather, Finance - didn't help. Uninstalled and reinstalled, didn't help. MS Diagnostics talks about needing an account but she already has a hotmail account as part of her profile - just hasn't saved a password in her profile. I have wasted more time trying to recover from Win 10 damages that I'm almost ready to start missing ME.
- Hi John
Rolling back has consequences which can suck as you see.
In the end I think you have to find and be happy with what works for you. I do love my Microsoft products, but one size doesn't always fit all users.
On a side note, I think with the trends in technology, we are moving towards a society that will monitor everything we do and where privacy will no longer really be private.
Think of cameras in cities and towns monitoring you, software that will track your movements, shopping habits, etc.
In the future (my prediction so remember me when I'm famous for it) there won't be on premises or locally installed software, it will be subscription based and there'll be limited hardware as we will use dummy terminals that connect through high speed internet to servers that housing virtual machines for all our computing needs (or our mobile phones like Samsung Dex which has huge potential IMO).
Also the English language will be essentially short text message style writing as people will forget to spell words properly and just like ancient Egypt that posted pictures on walls of cats and what not, we pretty much do that now 3000 years later.
And worst case if things go with with AI, we can bow down to our Skynet overload.
With regard to Windows, in previous versions we had the choice to install updates and now it's mandatory in Windows 10. You can't stop it from happening. Software vendors will dictate how we do things and their EULA will be their bible.
I just hope our laws catch up quickly and protect us from our data being used inappropriately. Like what happened to Facebook and Google.
Hilariously funny, way off topic, but also true, prediction is now over.
Cheers
Damien
My sense of it is that this suggests that this popup is Microsoft behavior.
Do others agree? ... and why is Microsoft staying silent about the problem?
