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"why wouldn't you, eventually?"

Because if people found out you were doing that you would lose vast numbers of paying customers, which would cost you a lot of money.

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You're talking about a company that puts ads in the start menu and opts users in to all kinds of telemetry.

If people haven't gotten tired of Microsoft's antics yet, they never will.

It's a little different, Microsoft doesn't care about consumers as they stopped being relevant to Microsoft's financials in the Ballmer era. Even consumer Office spending makes less than LinkedIn for companies to put into perspective how little they care.

However, enterprise/commercial? The same group you're trying to sandwich between a 365 subscription and azure/github? These are the people in which when they do have evidence that they are being negatively affected, will cause a massive dent in Microsoft's bottom line.

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