Love this article! I've also been baffled by the reactions of some people in regards to privacy concerns.

Time after time, with each update, Microsoft chose to employ questionable tactics to cause users to download a piece of software that many didn’t want.

Google did something in the same vein recently. In email, they have a screen that asks if you want them to follow you around and take note of each website you're on that has Google ads on them. If you hit the big highlighted button, the answer was that you wanted them to follow you around. If you wanted to opt out, you had to hit the tiny words that said "more options" and choose between 3 choices that were all vague. None said simply opt out.

One of the arguments I've seen for why Microsoft is getting away with so many privacy invasions is that everyone else is doing it, and no one expects privacy anymore.

I hope people are wrong about that.

Otherwise, Microsoft may find that it has inadvertently discovered just how far it can push its users before they abandon a once-trusted company for a better, more privacy-protective solution.

I think Microsoft feels that its OS is so integrated into people's systems that they'll just stop noticing. In some ways, they may be right. I had a Windows 7 operating system when all this controversy happened. It crashed, so I had to get a new computer. It now has Window 10 on it. It is too much of a hassle to change out this OS. I've done all the privacy selection I can on set-up, but it's clear that it's not much. I'm just hoping that some of the lawsuits will be effective or that changing OS will become a lot more user-friendly.