In June I received an e-mail from Microsoft informing me that at the end of July, I could upgrade my Windows 8.1 operating system to the new Windows 10—for free! But of course, nothing is free, outside of hugs from Grandma. In what is starting to snowball into a PR disaster for Microsoft, just hours after release the blogosphere brimmed with articles condemning Microsoft's "data grab."
Windows 10 collects (and sells) information about your every keystroke, websites you visit, passwords, purchases you make, the music and web content you stream, IMs or online conversations, events in your calendar, the content in your private folders, and much more. Some bloggers have disparaged Windows 10 as spyware.
