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I'm unsure if Macs send as much data. For a fact, Android combined with Google apps know A LOT more.

Microsoft tends to get singled out while being the better option, sometimes

Sometimes? More like all the time. Microsoft still gets unfair criticism when what it is doing is usually less than its competitors (Apple, Google.)

It's pretty astounding, HN reads like early 2000s Slashdot sometimes in regards to its complete hatred of Windows. This entire thread is almost verbatim early 2000s Slashdot, "I just switched to Linux and I love it" along with all the OSS evangelists piling on. It's more annoying than insightful.

Microsoft still gets unfair criticism when what it is doing is usually less than its competitors (Apple, Google.)

This is a subjective opinion (i.e., subject to debate), and also a harmful one. "The other guy is worse" is never a good defense.

Actually I think the defense of "Microsoft should never adapt to market standards that others have set, because they are Microsoft" is never a good defense.

Why should our reaction to using software that actively works against us be any different now than it was then?

FOSS is important.

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