>Dirext quote: "hundreds of millions of Win10 users are opted in by default to invasive data gathering that benefits only Microsoft, not those users. All of that information is transmitted via the Internet and includes IP address information. To any nation-state security agency it would be trivial to attach that information to a real identity. If it hasn't been done already, it's only a matter of time before some such agency issues a National Security Letter or similar to compel MS to hand it over."
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>Welcome to the FUD club.
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>>Direct quote: "- No more updates to Windows 7. This includes security updates"
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>>>How is that FUD? I just gave a simple fact that can be verified from the link I gave.
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>>>>That's what I thought - FUD.

I would not call that FUD, but the harsh reality. More than once MS had to fight american agencies to safeguard data on foreign servers.