> Why would I expect there to be a difference in my level of privacy between the two? This is frankly a ludicrous thing to expect users to understand. I would c

> Why would I expect there to be a difference in my level of privacy between the two? This is frankly a ludicrous thing to expect users to understand. I would certainly not expect this. I don't know. Maybe I'm just old and paranoid. As soon as the Windows installation menu requested to link a MS Live account to my Windows login, I thought "wtf, when did MS require having an online account to install Windows?", then I clicked whatever sub-link was there to create an offline user account instead. It seems natural to me that they would try to log additional information about you and then store it "in the cloud" if you used an online account to login to Windows. Not only that but now they have a direct way to convert anonymous data into non-anonymous data through your MS Live details.