That "telemetry shit" can be turned off if you don't want the features it's needed for. They included it because a lot of users want things like personalized search suggestions and useful auto-correct, which require data collection and analysis. MS also included data collection to help their developers detect issues with the OS and write patches accordingly, but that's been a part of Windows for a long, long time.
That telemetry shit is not something it is reasonable for your OS to do and thus enabling it by default is underhanded and dishonest.
If Microsoft provided a guide on startup after a fresh install and walked you through the new features telling you what it needs to collect to have them available, then there would not be an uproar.
But users who don't understand technology don't like going through all that, so someone at MS probably called it a win-win with "convenience" and data collection.
That "telemetry shit" can be turned off if you don't want the features it's needed for. They included it because a lot of users want things like personalized search suggestions and useful auto-correct, which require data collection and analysis. MS also included data collection to help their developers detect issues with the OS and write patches accordingly, but that's been a part of Windows for a long, long time.
That telemetry shit is not something it is reasonable for your OS to do and thus enabling it by default is underhanded and dishonest.
If Microsoft provided a guide on startup after a fresh install and walked you through the new features telling you what it needs to collect to have them available, then there would not be an uproar.
That would be much better, yes.
But users who don't understand technology don't like going through all that, so someone at MS probably called it a win-win with "convenience" and data collection.