I meant the mindset seems to have changed on a grander scale. IE with respect to forcing updates on users and aggressive telemetry collection.
I understand how Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to OS updates, as a majority of systems being up to date helps with herd immunity to prevent worm-scale attacks lack the past few ransomeware attacks, but at the same time, I hate desktop systems coming closer to mobile phones with respect to being locked down. With some updates even changing system settings, it's obvious that Microsoft no longer trusts the user, and that unnerves me.
When it comes to telemetry, I was always for it before, purposely selecting the "yes send telemetry" for any Microsoft product I installed, as I was very much a fanboy for most of my life and I enjoyed helping to make the product better. But the way they've handled the privacy aspect of it, along with not allowing you to opt out in any real way, other than disconnecting the network makes my hair stand on end.
I dual boot. I also love new features and updates. On Fedora, I install update very frequently: on Windows, I go to some extremes to prevent certain types of (telemetry) updates from being installed.
On my phone, every app from F-Droid is updated daily; I've avoided installing updates to preinstalled Samsung crap from GPlay for months.
Instead of forcing updates on me, Microsoft might first try convincing me to trust that they're in my best interest, first.
With the telemetry though, it's hard to argue that isn't about putting users first when so much of the aggressive nature of it seems to be a desire to get as large of a sample size as possible to do the best they can attempt to do the most good for the most users at a time.
I think with recent updates Microsoft continues to listen to the privacy concerns and find a balance between large sample size and genuine privacy explanations and opt-out powers. The new privacy OBE ("out of the box experience") for Fall Creators Update from what I saw of it in Windows Insider build pushes looks like positive steps in that direction.
As for updates, that is a rock and a hard place. I've not had trouble scheduling updates to times that are convenient to me and this is also something I think each Windows 10 update has gotten better at, but I can appreciate how upsetting it can be for those that have had issues with Windows scheduling updates for inconvenient times.
> With some updates even changing system settings
Many of these seem to be accidents and that this is also something that Microsoft (from watching Insider builds) seems aware of and is working to get better at. Some of these accidental settings wipes it felt like you could tell were artifacts of the move to the new "agile" update infrastructure of Windows 10. (Increasingly more "roll up" updates are like what a Windows Upgrade used to be, creating a new registry and C:\Windows entirely, copying important bits from the old ones before replacing them, and it's easy to forget things to copy/patch from the old install, especially new settings. Some of those should have been caught by more Insiders at the time, because almost all Insider builds are installed that way, but the Insiders are a self-selected subset of Windows users that admittedly have their own biases.)
I understand how Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to OS updates, as a majority of systems being up to date helps with herd immunity to prevent worm-scale attacks lack the past few ransomeware attacks, but at the same time, I hate desktop systems coming closer to mobile phones with respect to being locked down. With some updates even changing system settings, it's obvious that Microsoft no longer trusts the user, and that unnerves me.
When it comes to telemetry, I was always for it before, purposely selecting the "yes send telemetry" for any Microsoft product I installed, as I was very much a fanboy for most of my life and I enjoyed helping to make the product better. But the way they've handled the privacy aspect of it, along with not allowing you to opt out in any real way, other than disconnecting the network makes my hair stand on end.