"Employers say students don’t have the ability to … think critically, innovate, solve complex problems and work well in a team." otherwise known as "work place experience".
There is no such thing as "free". MS has less than 15% OS share these days, they are trying to monetize every aspect of each product with a subscription business model. That said, free 100GB (with Bing incentives) was nice and very usable with Win10/WinPhone, but now....not so much.
And now the bigger software companies are opening "research centers" in the offshore countries and just plain moving the jobs there. Specifically China, which was the big deal when the president of China recently met with Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple at Microsoft's main campus.
"The Community" is not the only ones using FireFox. Does anyone really believe that any corporation is really being "very careful to maintain privacy concerns" anymore?