LOL John! :)
 

Unfortunately, it's not just advertisers that cortana will be sharing your keystrokes with. there's also the intelligence-gathering agencies. Heck, the entire Military-Industrial complex will be keeping files on you. But hey, no worries, you’ll be doing your part to empower Big Business, Big Brother, etc. Once upon a time, using Microsoft products empowered the user. A different story now. Don't kid yourself.

Yup you are far better living in an airport or an embassy nowadays ;)

michael diemer
Unfortunately, it's not just advertisers that cortana will be sharing your keystrokes with. there's also the intelligence-gathering agencies. Heck, the entire Military-Industrial complex will be keeping files on you. But hey, no worries, you’ll be doing your part to empower Big Business, Big Brother, etc. Once upon a time, using Microsoft products empowered the user. A different story now. Don't kid yourself.

I'm not one to say I have nothing to hide. That misses the point even though I don't have anything to hide. I do object to an infringement on my privacy simply because it belongs to me and no one else. Nor do I believe that without a court of law allowing this can it be done. You may say I trust too much and you may be right but I refuse to live my life thinking paranoid thoughts about what could be.
 
Show me evidence that the Government is tracking me and I will complain very loudly indeed, not because I am worried about them finding out something but rather because it is wrong. Its also against the law!   

John
Show me evidence that the Government is tracking me and I will complain very loudly indeed, not because I am worried about them finding out something but rather because it is wrong. Its also against the law!   

https://en.m.wikipedia.or...(2013%E2%80%93present)

Also try this one...
https://mobile.twitter.co...tus/466199731275071488

At least the NSA knows when MS is actually withdrawing Win 7 support :)

Doktor Avalanche

John
Show me evidence that the Government is tracking me and I will complain very loudly indeed, not because I am worried about them finding out something but rather because it is wrong. Its also against the law!   

https://en.m.wikipedia.or...(2013%E2%80%93present)

That says nothing about me! I'll believe I'm being tracked when you show me the tracking data on me from the NSA.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/worsham/worsham.html

It's been technically trivial to track what people do online for a long time now. The battle over this will be fought (and won or lost, or more likely constantly wrestled over) in the courts and at the ballot box, not in people's OS choices.