MS is doing good in my book. They should keep it up. Eventually people will start giving them a chance again.

The problem is that MS has such an amazing record of strategic underhandedness, it would take many years of consistently good behavior for me to trust their intentions.

By the way, exactly _which_ of their patents do they claim Linux violates, and exactly what data are they collecting from Windows 10 boxes?

Yep very true. I'm a little dogmatic about too. I haven't even installed VS Code even though I know it's supposed to be pretty good. Burned too hard plus looking at what they did to others before me makes a pattern that is hard to ignore.