Thank you for the link, and the full disclosure.
I do not plan on upgrading my current equipment, but this is the year for some replacement hardware. I have been considering Win10, but also looking at Linux with windows VM for some tasks.
I work in the aerospace software industry.
You are most welcome, and please let me know if you have any follow-up questions.
Linux is a good OS too. I always recommend that people seriously considering a switch set it up in a VM or a spare machine and try and use it for everything for a couple of weeks. Some people do that and are happy, others get frustrated, usually some app they need and can’t run there. To each his own.
But I wouldn’t look at Linux as a way to be free of privacy and security concerns. You are FAR more at risk from some 3rd-party application - regardless of OS - than anything from the OS.
Also, it is worth mentioning that At Microsoft every group has some team of people, they are typically part of the org that includes lawyers, that is in charge of privacy policy and enforcing that. Every employee has to go through this annual Standards of Business and Conduct training, which among other things has a large section devoted to privacy. Every employee has a hotline number and email they can contact with questions over what is allowed, or to report any concerns. No system is perfect, but hopefully from this you get the sense that customer privacy is important at Microsoft. People here realize that if the customers don’t trust us, they won’t buy our products. Then we’re out of a job, and no sane person wants that :)