Agreed on the start menu, that's an own goal. The telemetry in my opinion is a non-issue. To my knowledge nothing that's sent is actually harmful, and no harm h

Agreed on the start menu, that's an own goal. The telemetry in my opinion is a non-issue. To my knowledge nothing that's sent is actually harmful, and no harm has been demonstrated since they started gathering telemetry a decade ago. The more interesting point of criticism for me are the in-app ads. Not so sure on what is meaningfully different between ads in wordpad promoting word and ads in macOS and iOS music apps promoting apple music. Or, in the same vein, why it is fair to flame microsoft for integrating onedrive throughout the OS but nobody complains when apple does exactly the same with icloud (to the point where basically you have to really go out of your way not to get sucked into paying for icloud). Why is it ok for apple, but not for microsoft, to do these things?