Windows 10 is attracting more than its share of "Nervous Nellies" and self-appointed 'Experts' and its customary flock of axe-grinding psychological warfare "Spin-Doctors" all seemingly with a common purpose of sabotaging the launch of the latest Windows. As if these people had nothing better to do, and all day to do it.
I don't believe, for example, that Microsoft is purposely trying to become some kind of "Big Brother" as defined in George Orwell's book, "Nineteen Eighty Four". Those five million of us who have been testing it for months would know by now if that were the case. So let me explain where that idea came from. It came from the fact that for testing and evaluation purposes, we agreed to allow Microsoft and its trusted partners to use "Cookies" and "LSOs" on our hardware to discover how this wide variety of different devices and their installed third-party programs would interact with the new Windows. It's a matter of faith and trust between us, and I don't believe there's anything nefarious going on. Microsoft isn't trying to compete with the CIA or the FBI. They're just trying to develop a better operating system for you, because of all your bitching and whining about the ones you've got.
And even if I'm wrong, and they are "spying on the world with Windows 10" there are several security programs that can easily find and remove those "Cookies" and "LSOs" (Supercookies) in our systems, and most of us are already familiar with all that, and I'm sure the folks at Microsoft know this. So you've nothing to fear but fear itself. Lighten up and live a little! You're getting a hell of a nice operating system for free, and it deserves a fair trial before you decide to "shoot it at sunrise". You can always go back to the old one you've been complaining about, if you don't like it.
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