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With Recall, however, you're getting deep, native integration into Windows, while Rewind is a third-party app you have to install and hand over system permissions.

I can never quite figure Satya Nadella out. He has made many disturbing statements over the years. They typically turn out to be nothing burgers. Is he the true leader of Microsoft or a figurehead that can be thrown under the bus to satisfy people when Microsoft gets caught with their fingers in the cookie jar? Why don't they use an underling to announce this type of nonsense.

Microsoft and all of the big tech entities want to have as much of your personal information as possible for marketing purposes. But there are obviously other more nefarious possibilities. Taking refuge by switching to Linux or switching to a different type of phone likely has little impact on this type of misbehavior in most cases.

Oracle, IBM, Red Hat, Novell, not to mention Google, Microsoft and many other corporate interests invest heavily in Linux. Almost everything going into the kernels these days is paid, sponsored, or commissioned. Most people like to imagine the work is being done by idealistic computer nerds working for nothing. This is mostly a myth at this point. How many people do you know who like to spend their days working for nothing to fix programming issues. I have never met someone like that, and I have been farting around with digital technology since I was in the 5th grade. When I started... learning how to use a soldering iron was a more important skill than actual programming.

Unlike Microsoft it is much harder to pin down who put in a backdoor when one is actually discovered. Is it a big problem? Probably not, but people have a false sense of security. People know very little about the true origins of most flavors of Linux these days. Reading through the posts on various threads here gives one a pretty good idea of how much people desire to assign blame to the easily identifiable boogie men and want to believe that there is a safe and viable alternative.

Yesterday, I started up a couple of the Ubuntu Studio installations that I hadn't started for a couple of months. They each took hundreds of updates for the operating system and apps installed... and I have not installed that much extra fluff. I have no idea what all those updates were actually for... I just let it do its thing. Windows typically does maybe half a dozen updates if you haven't started the machine in a while.

Thanks for the input. I delay Windows updates for 90 days after allowing one - which may mean "fixing" a supposed improvement. And Linux rarely should warrant updates.

And I think that smartphones are the least trustworthy devices. And inferior for most computing functions (including moving files) but relative few users seek to enhance efficiency of their desktop PCs - if they even have one anymore.