Microsoft isn't filled with morons, and they knew this would be the reaction. They always planned this "retreat," and this retreat is actually an advance: if yo

Microsoft isn't filled with morons, and they knew this would be the reaction. They always planned this "retreat," and this retreat is actually an advance: if you completely missed the media tempest in a teapot, the story would be that Windows is going to embed AI into every copy that will be able to track everything that is done on the machine and make inferences from it. Now, the story is: Microsoft has been forced to retreat, through public pressure, from tracking everything that its users do by default. Complete success on Microsoft's part. And the public that angrily reads headlines and angrily tweeted twice, vigourously pats themselves on the back for their "victory."