> Maybe if we got something in exchange for the actual value of our data (say, Microsoft paid us per machine, per user, per hour used) then it would be worth it to opt-in.
You get something, better software because developers can know what is being used and what it is not, what feature is bugged, etc etc.
Or you get something worse because you happened to be one of the few users of a niche feature that they decided the axe because they optimize for the telemetry data.
You get something, better software because developers can know what is being used and what it is not, what feature is bugged, etc etc.