Not siding with, just pointing out, this is nothing new. And not just Microsoft, but pretty much everyone and everything. I know I can point to several devices around my home and work, along with tons of programs and apps that are excellent products but send data back to somewhere for whatever reason, or have options to deselect such intrusion, opting out, and even then by monitoring network traffic, you can still see these things doing.....something that makes me wonder, hell, the opt out really do anything? Makes me want to crawl the internet and read the fine print.
And with Windows I feel people are sounding this warning, pointing, screaming "look! It's horrible what they are doing!" While at the same time using their phones and apps and having no option or concern for what data is being sent back.