Microsoft hasn't gotten better. But other companies are now even worse. People used to be scared Microsoft would lock our devices down so we could only run approved software.

Guess what Apple and to a lesser extent Google did that.

Microsoft tried to move in that direction with the windows store, but they didn't go as far.

Microsoft has worsened on privacy but less so than others.

Microsoft has moved more things to the cloud where we can't see the binaries we run but less so than others.