> Microsoft changed. And for the better. But better for whom? Sometime after 2007, Microsoft: (1) rolled out unstoppable, inscrutable "telemetry" in Windows,

> Microsoft changed. And for the better. But better for whom? Sometime after 2007, Microsoft: (1) rolled out unstoppable, inscrutable "telemetry" in Windows, (2) decided that "opt-out" was appropriate for privacy-invading features, and (3) decided it was okay to silently reset such opt-outs. (4) most recently, decided it's okay to violate copyright for any material they can scrape off the web, except for victims who can afford to fight Microsoft in court. I don't know any of their actual reasons for those policies, but as an end-user their reasons are indistinguishable from "because we can". IIRC, in the MS-DOS / Windows 2 up through ~early Windows 10 days, Microsoft's sleazy behavior was mostly limited to their interactions with other software companies.