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Microsoft's bread and butter has been selling and servicing to businesses.
So with that in mind, the hell are they thinking? Windows 10 end of life guarantees that businesses specifically will have to switch. Then the next option in line is one that will by default vacuum up all your proprietary information to feed into an AI, effectively "copyright laundering" it?.
Even if there's ways to deactivate the feature, the non-tech savvy managers will just go off of the headlines and the tech savvy ones will recognize the security risk. And government/healthcare computer might just fork Linux into a non-open source version.
Ironically it feels like they're focusing too much on consumers (on extorting them) and shooting themselves in the foot for their business clientele.
It's like they saw all the shittiest things about apple products and said "game on motherfuckers!"
imagine how many people are going to get doxxed by this feature.