I did a fresh windows 10 install on a brand new machine within the last month. There is advertising in the launcher (can't remember what windows calls it but t

I did a fresh windows 10 install on a brand new machine within the last month. There is advertising in the launcher (can't remember what windows calls it but the start menu). There are popups on the desktop from Microsoft that I haven't been able to stop. (Something about "Teams" and it's tied to having installed MS Office). I had to be sure I bought the Pro version, there are a lot of skus that don't include full disk encryption built in. Setting up bitlocker is not nearly as easy as setting up full disk encryption on Apple or Linux. I don't really consider that an optional feature so I don't understand why it's considered some kind of premium thing. Did you see in the linked article what it takes to turn off telemetry? Are you saying that this is not longer necessary and now it can be done in an easy, convenient way? It took me a while to clean up all the garbage apps MS bundle into it. The things that I see listed in the link are current and real.