[PhantomGremlin]

5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser.

The rest of your points are good, but I love this one the best. Because Apple has now done the same thing, Spotlight searches now go to the Internet by default.

[Litruv]

http://i.imgur.com/k7CQTim.png

Seems fine to me? ;)

(hit start, start searching for something, gear on the left.)

[Terr_]

How much do you want to be there's some other search-system (current or planned) where Microsoft does not honor that setting and makes you hunt for more? :p

[yuhong]

AFAIK it actually dates to Win8.1 too.