> With Windows 7/8 you can opt to not install telemetry updates. For now, yes. In the future that may change, just as it did when the Windows 10 update changed

> With Windows 7/8 you can opt to not install telemetry updates. For now, yes. In the future that may change, just as it did when the Windows 10 update changed from "optional" to "recommended" and the installation began without user interaction. When you combine that with Microsoft's truncated support life cycle for 7 and 8.1, you end up feeling forced to move to 10 one way or another. I'm not saying that Windows 10 is a bad OS (indeed, I enjoy it on my gaming PC and my Stream 7 tablet, and it has been a huge performance boost to my wife's PC and laptop). I'm just saying that any pretense of "Microsoft would never say one thing and do another" is null and void at this point.