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Why would they cater for Windows 10 Mobile? Here, see how relevant it is: http://www.windows10update.com....

Windows "free" edition will write home about pretty much everything you do. The default settings send Microsoft ya unique device ID with everything you type, everything you say, every link you click, and every file name. The settings you can't change send less to Microsoft but still way too much. I'm not comfortable with this level of reporting. More importantly I'm not comfortable with Microsoft having the option (updates you can't disable) to ratchet that up. I'm not a frog for Microsoft's pot.

That alone is reason for me to either pay for the non-shit version or only run it on a separate computer for testing and learning the OS. It looks like a fine OS, but it's not a free OS.

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Read their privacy policy here, it's a litany of ass covering that boils down to, "we'll collect all the data we can and use it any way we please but hey, we won't send you ads that creep you out".