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> ..reserve my next outburst until a..

You'll just waste your time :)

Look, it's Microsoft's right to put any/all effort to making more money with their various practices.

It is our right to buy a Win10 Pro license for X amount of USD, then bolt down the ** out of it with the myriad of privacy tools to protect ourselves and have a "better Win7 Pro OS".

MS has always and will always try to play the game of getting more control, making more money, collecting more telemetry, do clean and dirty things until get caught. Welcome to the human condition. MS employees are humans. MS shareholders are also humans.

As for Windows Update, I don't think I've updated the core version at all since I installed it, and I am using WuMgr and WAU Manager (both portables) for very selective security updates.

It's a game. If you are a former sys-admin or a technical person, then you avoid their traps. If you are not, then the machine will chew your data, just like Google Analytics, AdMod, and so many others do.

Side-note: never update apps when they work 'alright', chances are you will regret it.

>>HenryB+(OP)
it'd be nice if we could enforce monopoly regulations too.

>>HenryB+(OP)
It's a game, of the kind where the winning move is not to play. Except we're being forced to. Human condition is in many ways fucked.

>>cyanyd+h5
We do, but it takes a long time, and by the time we get to enforce the thing, the party is half-over. How many years was Microsoft playing around with IE as default browser? And they are still playing dirty games with Edge. It's not that they don't learn. It's that they will play the game until someone stops them, and then they will begin playing a different game.

Some people downvote (it's not about the points) but I merely state the reality and not my opinions.

I've made my living as a sys-admin early in my career using MS products, so thank you MS for putting food on my table. But this doesn't negate the dirty games/dark patterns/etc.