there is a lot of pissed off people who are seeing their desktop/notebook OS of choice (for whatever reasons, be it work, gaming etc.) fall into same old bullsh*t category that scumbags from Apple and Google went into (yes, privacy stuff, nothing more, nothing less). by having these on by default, or not changeable in simpler versions of OS at all, effectively most of the planet will get surveillance build in.

Err, no, thank you. Every single system/cloud is hackable, and given enough time, it will get hacked. I think plenty of proofs around us. Tell me, why should I be OK with this? I don't want their tiny functional enhancements for this price. In fact, i don't want them at all. I am never commanding my computer by voice, as is neither 99% of computer users (not only because english isn't their native language), and I see nothing cool nor interesting in it (just one example out of many).

personally, sticking to Win 7 till games will work on them. and if i move, i am pretty sure there will be completely disconnected offline cracked version, if the rest of the system will actually be worth it.

i had the impression lately Microsoft is doing some properly good stuff, but this showed that no, they are just same scumbags as they were 20 years ago, when they gave many people plenty of reasons to hate them. Methods and situations changed a bit, not so much questionable morals.