> To validate our improvements and make sure we’re giving our customers the best experience possible, we monitor aggregated telemetry on power consumption from

> To validate our improvements and make sure we’re giving our customers the best experience possible, we monitor aggregated telemetry on power consumption from millions of Windows 10 devices around the world. I don't know how I feel about this. On the one hand, the telemetry data is obviously very useful and will allow products to be improved greatly. On the other hand, how many of the "millions" of people know the data is being collected? Did every single one of them click a button that said "I know what data you want to collect and I accept your request to take it"? Definitely not. To pull stunts like this, they need absolute transparency on the telemetry collected, the encryption/sanitation methods, how they ensure anonymity, the security of the protocols used for collection, and ideally be an opt-in not an opt-out. I don't care if they collect battery usage of my new laptop playing games, and anything important is disabled, but there's absolutely no way I'm upgrading my development PC to Windows 10 or ever installing a Microsoft product on my Linux install. I'm waiting for the inevitable day when Windows messes with other OSes that have been dual-booted. One day we'll log in and see a pop-up saying "We've detected you recently installed <Insert Linux Distro here> to <Insert Disk Drive here>! To provide the best service possible, we've installed a full Microsoft driver/software suite and changed the theme to something more Windows-like." Edit: As a fun side-note, when copying the quote to my clipboard it automatically appended "Read more at <link to article here." The joke about Microsoft pushing their products into Linux distros was exactly that: A joke. But secretly adding data (even harmless links) into local memory that could be unknowingly stored/put anywhere because the user has no idea is unbelievable.