For a few years, Microsoft seemed to have really cleaned up their act and showed promise to become an ethical OS vendor that you could trust. The loss of that

For a few years, Microsoft seemed to have really cleaned up their act and showed promise to become an ethical OS vendor that you could trust. The loss of that Microsoft is the tragedy here, the loss of the last commercial mainstream computing platform that didn't want to do everything it possibly can to snitch, spy, analyze, advertize or gamify the living hell out of its... "customers."