>you trust Microsoft not to ship a trojan in Windows

Speak for yourself, mate.

a) it was one of multiple examples b) do you personally run a business this way and, if so, how's that working out relative to the competition? My point was simply that all businesses have some parties they trust on the theory that they'll sue if a contractual agreement is broken. It's too expensive not to trust someone when you have no reasonable basis for expecting an attack and a solid legal basis for compensation if they did: if you dislike Microsoft, substitute Apple or Samsung, your bank, etc.

On a fun note, microsoft does ship a trojan in windows. Its called Cortana and Telemetry.

That’s not what the term means. If those services bother you, your advocacy will be more effective if it’s not misleading.

Please enlighten me on what that term means. Because All the telemetry/cortana does is disguise itself as a useful feature , while collecting user data and siphoning it off to its central servers.