1. Microsoft won’t engage with customers on removal of this even if it causes problems.
2. The feature fires off before it informs you.
3. We don’t trust Microsoft after they turned their platform into a data gathering and leak risk.
4. This spans more than just windows as a platform so the assumption that opt out is OK is leaking onto privacy respecting platforms.
5. This is resurrected because it’s still being fought.
6. No one else does this. This is new and we don’t want the assumption that it’s ok to go forward any more than it has.
7. Steamrolling opinion is not how you treat customers. That’s how you lose them.
Microsoft are doing a big platform push for tooling I.e SQL server, powershell, VScode etc and we’re making it known that when in Rome, do as Romans do.
A lot of younger users will be used to telemetry as a feature and are not sensitive to it. This does however pretty much kill the product for healthcare, finance and defence sectors.
In my case this signifies the end of a 15 year investment of my life in a platform.