> is this supposed to be it? It is equal parts of: 1. Trying to make a universal OS. If you look at most of the "spying" bits, they're things that already exi

> is this supposed to be it? It is equal parts of: 1. Trying to make a universal OS. If you look at most of the "spying" bits, they're things that already exist and are taken for granted on Android/iOS phones all over the planet. Windows isn't doing anything new here. They're making an OS that is equally meant to run on desktops and phones. As a side effect people are suddenly seeing all the things that any other phone does direct and naked. 2. Recognizing the fact that the average user is a horrible idiot and giving up. Customer grade Windows is aimed at "users". And what average users have done in the past is never update their windows. Most not even because of any decision against it, but because they don't even understand what's going on and ignore it. The result being hordes upon hordes of machines are out in the wild, unpatched, with open security holes, for which MS gets the blame. So they made automatic updates the default and did not provide a way to disable it in the standard user interfaces. Doesn't mean they force it though. If you truly wish to take control over it, they allow you to. All they require is that either you hire an administrator, or learn how to handle Group Policy Editing yourself. For example, on Win10Pro, changing the setting of "Configure automatic updating" is sufficient to switch scheduling of updates off.