content: tl;dr: If you don't want to hear something that could be construed as pro-Microsoft, just downvoat and ignore this. Even if it's a trick or a token gesture, it's better than what Facebook, Google, Apple, and many other tech companies are doing. Microsoft is at least making an attempt at fighting the system that they're part of. And for all we know, the government ordered them to collect all that data in the first place. Seriously, I know that a lot of this community absolutely hates Microsoft right now, but we don't know all the factors that go into their decisions. We shouldn't be so quick to dismiss their actions.