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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
The alarms started fast and furious. Hopefully MS will not be a Trojan Horse in the future as a result.
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If they practiced full disclosure, gave users control over the telemetry process and....heck that's about all they need to do to regain customer trust. But every time they get the chance to reform their ways they step in even deeper excrement.
It's like a horror movie where the monster is upstairs and the cute woman needs to go up there to get a nail file. She hears the scary noises, might even see a little blood, she can walk away with no problems but she blithely steps upstairs and into the jaws of the monster. Microsoft just keeps getting deeper into trust deficit and either doesn't realize it (impossible) or thinks that it can just impose its will without consequence.
The public is very fickle. Remember MySpace? Remember Oldsmobile or Plymouth or the USSR? Huge "irreplaceable" behemoths, gone in a second. Pretty much nobody misses them and Microsoft can go the same way very quickly. All they have to do is totally lose customer trust. It's happening.