Automatic updates are great, I use it on most of my dev servers I could even see that defaulting auto update to "on" is a good move too. If you know what you'r

Automatic updates are great, I use it on most of my dev servers I could even see that defaulting auto update to "on" is a good move too. If you know what you're doing you can turn them off. I haven't adminned a windows machine since '98 -- can you really. Or turn off automatic windows updates? As for any telemetry stuff, that should be opt in, and have a target server to send to, which you can point to your own box if you want to. Microsoft today is different to Microsoft in the 90s though. In the 90s it was a software company that used embrace extend extinguish to maintain and extend its monopolies, but it wrote software and the software was the product. Now it seems it uses the "user is the product" ala Google, Facebook etc. I'm not aware of apple doing that. Still I guess inevitable as companies penny pinch more and more.