> I can only assume that I'm somehow outside of Microsoft's target market and just don't realize it. If you care about stuff like this you are not inside the t

> I can only assume that I'm somehow outside of Microsoft's target market and just don't realize it. If you care about stuff like this you are not inside the target group. > But is there really a sizable fraction of computer users that want an OS to unavoidable behave like this? Nobody wants telemetry specifically, but it indirectly (provided somebody smart is receiving it, which is arguable in MS's case) benefits the average user by detecting their preferences and issues. Updates are easy to argue for. Barely anobody will update their system on their own because they just don't understand the security implications. The people who understand them will probably all agree that getting people up to date quickly is important (you could argue better education could make a difference here, but that is so much effort, would hassle the user more and wouldn't reach everyone). Ads are harder to argue for, but you could argue for them as a valid method of financing an otherwise free system (it was always a relatively transparent MS strategy to do this). ... But even without ads Windows is something I have a hard time tolerating in general. The version I use at work has most of the explicitly user-hostile things disabled and is still plenty infuriating.