After perhaps the fourth time I disabled Cortana and cleaned up mysteriously re-enabled bloatware on the Start menu, I started getting the same "I don't own this device" feeling I've had for years with smartphones. It's obviously less egregious than e.g. Facebook, but it's also a more fundamental element of the stack where I'm less willing to tolerate bad behavior.

If it was simply a matter of doing a bunch of cleanup one, I'd get over it. But between buggy, user-unfriendly update features and instantly-out-of-date instructions on what I need to turn off, it's uncomfortably reminiscent of Android's issues.

>Second, anonymous telemetry is not spyware.

On this note: if you opt-out of telemetry, don't complain when your power-user features stop being catered to.

> Second, anonymous telemetry is not spyware.

I think there is plenty of room for legitimate disagreement on this point so long as it's not optional and/or fully disclosed.