[ConorMacNessa]

"Such powers are not necessary, and while Windows 10 supposedly allows you to opt-out, this setting is the default – they know what they are doing. The vast majority of people do not understand computers and they will be surrendering all rights to Microsoft without understanding what they have done. Why is Microsoft acting in such a hostile manner towards human rights?"

Because Bill Gates is just another Marxist multi-millionaire?

That said, after over thirty years of Windows versions, have we not acquired the savvy to pick and choose the features we want and discard those we don't want? Choose the custom install.

When Windows 10 comes out, I will not accept any defaults without close examination.

"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre / mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
"Thought must be the harder, heart be the keener / mind must be the greater, as our might lessens."

[rarestia]

Bill Gates hasn’t been a substantive part of Microsoft since 2008 and left the company completely in 2014. How is it that Windows 10 is related to his tenure there?