Their telemetry pushed me away from buying Windows licences. I used to pay hundred of dollars for Windows Pro licences for all my machines at home (desktop, se

Their telemetry pushed me away from buying Windows licences. I used to pay hundred of dollars for Windows Pro licences for all my machines at home (desktop, self-built HTPC, self-built NAS etc). - After MS went overboard with telemetry, I switched to Linux on everything except my desktop. Recently I set up two new machines (printer server and gaming server), in the past I would have bought two Windows licenses for those, but I didn't, and installed Linux instead. That's more than AU $650 in missed sales for MS.[1] I am aware that I am just one single data point with no statistical significance, but I can imagine I'm not the only person in the world who is bothered by this. [1] One copy of Win 10 pro is currently sold for AU $339. https://www.microsoft.com/p/windows-10-pro/df77x4d43rkt https://www.microsoft.com/p/windows-10-pro/df77x4d43rkt