Re: My precious data, it's ours
"But why bother doing things right before having a gun to the head ?"
I would presume that is is because until such times as the trigger is actually pulled that MS must be making money out of the data, or they are being"requested" by a TLA" to hold the data for reason X.
One thing is for sure, you don't need user details for application telemetry.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
