> Availability: Our products should always be available when our customers need them.

"Beginning mandatory shutdown for software updates. There's nothing you could possibly need your own computer for in the next hour, and all the data you lost when we killed your programs is your fault for not using Microsoft applications instead."

> Privacy: Users should be in control of how their data is used

"Telemetry is very important, for example the hardware IDs of that USB stick you plugged in were also reported to us by another computer an hour earlier, so now we know there's a relationship between you! Isn't metadata grand? But trust us, we have only your privacy in mind. By the way, did you ever finish that novel you were working on from the last crash report?"

> Users should be in control of when and if they receive information to make best use of their time.

"Hey! You still haven't linked your logon to a Microsoft account! Hey! Use Bing! Hey! It looks like you launched a web browser that isn't from Microsoft, switch to Edge instead! Hey! Here are advertisements on your lock-screen just cuz we can!"

Is that the one that bought us various fad service oriented technologies, even more broken DCOM and Code Access Security in the .Net Framework, topped with a peppering of Vista, UAC and shovelling the lumpy turds that remained into virtualization (LSASS etc) yet still somehow managing to run their entire AV software as SYSTEM resulting in a zero touch complete system remote compromise?

Trust is of course earned. Bill's words were lost unfortunately under the next year's priority, the one after that and the one after that.

Today it's AI. Tomorrow it's whatever Satya says that pumps the stock. I've worked with their tech for 30 years and customer requirements, safety and security is somewhere down the priority list. That is the only truth.

> Privacy: Users should be in control of how their data is used. Policies for information use should be clear to the user. Users should be in control of when and if they receive information to make best use of their time. It should be easy for users to specify appropriate use of their information including controlling the use of email they send.

Thrown out of the window long since