Windows 11, the latest flagship OS from Microsoft, is sleek, pretty, highly configurable—and, like just about everything in modern computing, just a tad too curious about where you are. The operating system’s interest in your whereabouts isn’t unique (hello, iPhones and Androids!), but maybe you...
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Let me introduce myself: I'm a programmer, and computer tech. I am anal about everything that goes on, on my computer. I don't like when it does things without my consent, much less without the curtesy of an alert. I spent 3 month beating windows into submission, and now that I've "upgraded"...
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