[mel919]

> Microsoft, with its cloud, software licensing and subscription businesses, is even less likely to go rogue in data collection because it no longer has a mobile platform to speak of.

But they have a desktop platform and they used it to go rogue with data collection, all the way. Just because they've failed on mobile doesn't automatically make them a privacy-oriented company.

[mistrial9]

Microsoft is a company that in their very long history, has repeatedly pushed legal boundaries at the expense of their business partners, their individual customers, and the software ecosystem. But the company has(had?) a very different mode of operation than Facebook or Apple. Neither of the two lines above sound like M$ft here.