Gates & Balmer knew from day one that they wanted to rule the world, not just an industry. Windows 10 as the everywhere universal operating system. They'll give it away for free just like Android, the money is in information, as in getting the lemming's to type in their dossier, which is sold to governments worldwide.
Sadly I don't see much difference in Linux these days, these pre-bundled Distro's are no different than Windows, you have little control, or knowledge of what is being delivered. You can only 'trust', but what is trust Google from day one said "Don't be Evil", but Google is NSA, so what does it mean? When the devil himself say's Don't Be Evil? Perhaps Evil means Good?
In the context of 'Minority Report', tracking is all, anybody near a crime scene can be instantly marked as a suspect, any cop looking for an easy cash/gold confiscation can easily ID a person walking out of a bank with a large cash withdrawal ( asset forfeiture, aka highway men of the 1800's America ).
Information as always been power, spy's are the most valuable asset in War. Tracking a lemming and knowing his net worth has infinite value to Plutocrats who own and rule the globe.
The USA is a Kleptocracy, a Government owned and ruled by common criminals, having fleeced the USA citizenry to ruin, literally to the bone, they must now internationalize their criminal business to ID every MARK on the globe to be tracked and robbed, raped, murdered, and imprisoned.
These powers has made Bill Gates the richest man on earth, every evil doer on earth has 'invested' in Gates and his dream of domination of all.
We live in interesting times, should be interesting where this all goes.
The ultimate Orwellian society is where everyone plays without objection.
Sure some of you say, "You have nothing to fear, if your not a criminal", but the problem is that if you have an asset then you are somebody's MARK, lawyers make their money off tracking wealthy people, and once you know somebody has a net-worth, getting a judgement is easy.
Carnegie ( steel baron ) once said "Making money is easy, keeping it is hard", Tracking is all about knowing who has something to steal, all great fortunes were made by theft, including Microsoft, as DOS was stolen as well by Gates.