i say yes.
http://money.cnn.com/2015...pool&iid=obnetwork

Yeah, there's a lot more "intrusiveness" in the latest Win 10, but there's also a lot of solutions to fix this.
 
A lot of these privacy issues can be easily avoided during the initial install if you choose Customize Settings while avoiding Express Settings.
 
You can also change a lot the privacy settings after installation: http://www.howtogeek.com/221864/digging-into-and-understanding-windows-10s-privacy-settings/
 
 

some things you cannot fix,
according to the article.
 

batsbrew
some things you cannot fix,
according to the article.
 

Let them eat Cake I say!!
 
 

I SAY LET THEM EAT SOMETHING ELSE...........

The price you pay for "free" upgrades. Or if you are not upgrading, the price you pay to support Microsoft as it struggles to find a way to make revenue with "software as a service."  This is the model that has made FaceBook and Google a gazillion bucks. Suck up sales leads and sell them on to robo-callers, spammers, and popup artists. MS has no interest in your personal privacy; it has no interest in your person at all. When the world stopped talking about the rights of citizens, and began talking about consumer rights, the battle was already lost. If MS did not want to sell into the EU, you can be sure the options to turn off tracking would be locked down. If they could find a way to ring fence Windows so it could not use Google while avoiding a well funded anti-monopoly suit, Bing would be telling you where to shop instead.

I have wondered what I have let myself in for, upgrading to W10.
 
On the one hand, I really do like how it looks and feels.
 
But, as much stuff that it's possible to turn off, there is some stuff that you just can't.
 
For instance, "Diagnostic and usage data" can only be set to "Basic," "Enhanced" and "Full." I would have been a lot happier if I could turn that off also. Like David has said above, this appears to be the price we are paying for so called "free" upgrades...
 
We can only see how this goes I suppose...
 
Thinking on, I have suddenly started receiving a couple of nuisance calls from peeps wanting to fix my "computer" problems... I wonder.........

synkrotron 
Thinking on, I have suddenly started receiving a couple of nuisance calls from peeps wanting to fix my "computer" problems... I wonder.........

.....if it's Doktor Avalanche  

And the hits just keep on coming. Remember the updates you have no choice but to install, well Microsoft is no longer telling you what is in those patches. So some stuff that you can 'turn off' now may be disabled at a later date, despite how you have set it. Ars Technica has an article about this at http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/microsoft-has-no-plans-to-tell-us-whats-in-windows-patches/
 
Looks like I'll be staying with Win 7 or 8, and begin switching over to Linux full time (about all I have to do on Windows is Sonar. Everything else I can do in Linux)

Hi,
 
On both of my machines, I have turned off all of these options. The real kicker, for example, is if you use Word, Excel, or Outlook for free, and you do not own anything that you might create or invent in those pieces of software. I would be concerned with sending a piece of music as an attachment to a friend, and then it gets taken away from you.
 
That alone is enough to scare me off the use of any Microsoft software, except Windows. And I'm not convinced that Apple is any safer. But I think the day is coming when it ends up in court, and on that day, the company will take a big hit ... but I think it will be too late ... the steal has already damaged your ability to continue and go with it.
 
For now, I'm using Open Office, which has been my main for almost 5 years.