I try very hard to never use Microsoft products, that's for sure let there be no mis-understandings about that. So I can't comment on what the most recent incarnation of Windows does but I'm well aware that Skype did not change for the better after MS took over.

Even so, saying this as not exactly a Microsoft fan (to put it very mildly) their words (not necessarily their deeds) are spot on, this is really what is needed and privacy really is a fundamental human right.

Now if they will actually act on these words it will count for something.