Microsoft Windows 10 comes with another caveat.

We may automatically check your version of the program and download configuration changes or software updates, including the ones that keep you from obtaining the Services, playing games that are counterfeit, or using unauthorized hardware peripheral devices. You are often expected to upgrade the applications to continue utilizing the Services.”

There isn’t any clarification on what’s meant by unauthorised hardware while the statement above certainly mentions pirated games. Does Microsoft mean hardware mods of its own apparatus such as the Xbox 360 or the Xbox One? Or will there be a record of peripherals in the event you are using those, then that may face blocks and that Microsoft has slotted as unauthorised? We’re really not yet convinced and Microsoft has left that statement rather obscure. Considering Windows 10 is going to be observed across apparatus, more clarity is demand on what’s meant by ‘unauthorised hardware’.

Microsoft also has not said how it’ll go about finding applications and counterfeit games installed on a machine. This raises privacy concerns, thinking about the reality that Microsoft is going to have the ability to tell what software is installed in your machine. In a nation like India, where pirated software is extensively used, this could present to be an issue for many.

The narrative will be updated by us so. Meanwhile, let’s understand what are your ideas on this particular inclusion to the EULA.

According to this add-on to the clause, you’ll no longer get alternatives like ‘select when to reboot’, ‘select when to download and install’ and ‘never check for upgrades’, which you were comfortable with in Windows 8.1. Windows 10 upgrades will be downloaded and installed. As an end user, you’ll just get the choice to choose when to reboot the machine when the upgrades have downloaded and installed. As you don’t get the choice to determine when to download upgrades for those on a restricted data bandwidth, forced upgrades from Windows may be an issue of matter.