Nah! Facebook, Google or maybe Apple. MS is not the evil big brother so many make it out to be.
Not so much so anymore, but they did do some shady things in the past.
I think they stopped being big enough to get away with being evil a while back, frankly.
Not sure which side you are taking there.
If you are agreeing with me and saying MS is not the evil big brother it used to be, that is very true and I agree. MS got severely spanked and threatened to be severely spanked further by the EU and Congress if MS didn't change their ways. Plus their disastrous marketing scam... err... I mean scheme to jam W8 and its horrible "Metro" UI down our throats was a huge failure that hurt MS, but the entire "PC" industry as well. Then finally there was their initial lack of transparently about telemetry and W10 which, with the help of misinformation
posted by the MS bashers and many irresponsible bloggers and members of the IT press, created confusion between "privacy" and "security". In reality, W10 is very secure and privacy concerns were blown way WAY out of proportion. But sadly, many believed and still believe
the tin-foil hat wearers. Personal privacy is still a major reason many refuse to let W7 go - even though our ISPs, Google and especially our cell phone carriers are much (by magnitudes!) more invasive than MS ever was.
On the other side, f you are disagreeing with me and saying Facebook, Google and Apple are no longer evil big brothers, then I have to ask, have you seen the news in the last year or so about
Facebook? How they have not only failed to protects users privacy (on a much bigger scale than anything MS did) but
intentionally violated our privacy
and security?
Or the news about Google and Apple violating our privacy with Alexa and Siri? Or how Apple is MUCH bigger Microsoft - thanks in part to being the ultimate exemplification of "proprietary" - one of the most "evil" words for consumers?
No need to reply. That's OT and this thread has already gone off in too many directions. Just something to think about.