I am actually quite happy that someone else than me is trying new drugs before they are widely used as a treatment. I have mixed feelings about Microsoft using consumers as beta testers.
I don't mind being part of the solution, I just wish it were clear what trials I was participating in ,and had the ability to opt out if it didn't feel right...
Unless you're in the insider program on the insider build, I believe what they are grabbing is mostly usage data for features and applications... Now that could be nefarious or benign, there's no real way to know.
Yeah but Microsoft should have catch the start menu hang plaguing windows 10 recently before it goes into production.
And I am not sure that "everyone else does it" is a good reason. Everyone else does nagging. Apple nags again and again for its icloud, apple pay, apple music, etc. I get some nagging for using instagram all over my facebook feed. Microsofts nags me for using edge, onedrive, etc.
But "the others do it too" doesn't make a good product.
They should absolutely fix it. But they just fall back to the "everyone is doing it, so why not us" attitude. I've seen companies include phone-home features after win10 rolled out theirs.