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Microsoft Disables Wi-Fi Sense on Windows 10

Summary: Microsoft disabled Wi-Fi Sense, the Windows 10 feature that shared access to Wi-Fi networks with a user's Outlook, Skype, and opt-in Facebook contacts, announcing it as a footnote in its Windows 10 Experience blog. Corporate vice president Gabe Aul said the cost of updating the code combined with low usage and low demand made the feature not worth further investment, and Microsoft did not cite the privacy and security concerns raised since the OS debuted the previous summer.

What you should know: Wi-Fi Sense shared an encrypted version of the network password stored on a Microsoft server, so anyone on a user's contact lists could join the network, and because they held authorization rather than the password itself, changing it later did not keep them out; the only opt-out was renaming the network SSID to include "_optout".

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