All of these settings existed in previous versions of windows, all this does is gather them in one place. The OS didn't need to gather mass amounts of data and

All of these settings existed in previous versions of windows, all this does is gather them in one place. The OS didn't need to gather mass amounts of data and ship them off to be stored and analyzed to figure out, 'hey, maybe we could gather them all in one place.' They probably just needed to listen to their own developers. Given that all this data held by US companies on US soil is accessible to the US Government with no real hurdles and there is no real understanding of what they're collecting, ALL OS data collection should be fought all the time.