We don't disagree on that. (And BTW my background is here. I was doing embedded systems from the late 1970's through about 2005.)
> Ever watch your hard drive light or monitor your network while your windows computer is supposedly doing nothing? You will find it’s doing “stuff”. In Windows 10, that includes even more spying.
Again, we don't disagree. OTOH, the same is true on my Linux and OS X systems. There's always some amount of system stuff going on; granted that it's mostly the disks and rarely involves the network.
Embedded systems typically are truly quiescent when not doing something substantive. If nothing else it saves energy (my spacecraft ACS CPUs typically slept whenever possible for that reason).
The reason I think it's cool that Win10 is being shoehorned into a RPi is that it will force Windows folks to think small, think efficient, etc. all of which are Good Things. Windows programmers and architects have for decades worked with the assumption that CPUs scream, disks are infinite, memory is infinite, etc. It's about time they had a real challenge, IMO.
So while Win10 might not be a great first choice for an embedded system -at present-, it's an excellent move to learn with. I believe that long-term it will improve Windows, which is a good thing for the world in general.
BTW, I worked for MSoft for awhile. It’s getting worse, not better.
At some point, MSoft will come to an inflection point (and it’s in the next few years).
Their reserves are shrinking, and their cash cow is running dry.
In 10 years, they will be bankrupt if they can’t institute MAJOR change.