It is not overblown. I&#x27;m very happy that Microsoft is getting bad press. Hopefully this drives people away from Windows. This is the only way Microsoft &quot;listens&quot;. When their revenue takes a hit. The primary issue with Windows 10 is how Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to it. The secondary issue is with the lack of controls given to users.<p>I don&#x27;t want certain Win 7 machines that I own&#x2F;maintain to ever upgrade to Windows 10. Didn&#x27;t ask for it. Don&#x27;t want it. Just go away and let me do my job. Microsoft provides me no official way to disable that horrendous popup. I expect that shit from shady browser toolbars, and bundled crapware, not Microsoft.<p>Microsoft seems to think the users can&#x27;t be trusted with options to disable Updates, Telemetry, and other BS services. I absolutely HATE having to ever reboot my windows machine. It is extremely critical for me to have my dev box be rock stable and running 24&#x2F;7. I frequently used to go months without ever rebooting it. Also, with Win 7 I could just set the Update behavior to &quot;don&#x27;t call us, we&#x27;ll call you&quot;. With Windows 10 I&#x27;m forced to muck around with services and group policy just to get my machine to update and reboot on my schedule, rather than Microsoft&#x27;s.<p>As a customer of MS, I despise these methods, as I continue to use their OS, because there simply isn&#x27;t any other alternative. All I can hope for is people who don&#x27;t specifically need Windows to switch to other OSs en masse. At this point I could be swayed into thinking that its a good idea to support anti-microsoft efforts even if they are not based in facts (as you point out, nobody has shown exactly what they collect), just to obtain the result that you want.