On 2018-01-13, Ken Blake wrote:
You're saying it much more strongly than I would, but I generally
agree. But as far as I'm concerned, much the same is true of most
software.

In my experience most sofware by default does not try to "get to know
you" by gathering as much information as possible and forwarding it
to the mother ship. As far as I'm concerned, that alone is sufficient
reason for the harshest possible criticism. If such "features" are to
be included at all they should be opt-in rather than default.

Since I don't use Windows myself it's not an issue on my own computers,
but I deal with it in the field for others. When Cortana starts spouting
off during initial setup it makes me want to pull an Elvis and just shoot
the screen out.

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