Facebook does for status messages: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131215/23260825572/faceb...

Again, logging my keystrokes in a single text input field is vastly different from logging all of my keystrokes across the board.

Except logging your keystrokes across the board is not what Microsoft is doing. Do you realize how absolutely useless that data would be? They are monitoring search queries, specifically in Cortana. They probably do the same for auto correct instances. They aren't logging all of your keystrokes.

For a lot of people, Facebook is the board.

If you're on Facebook, then I think it's reasonable to assume that Facebook is recording what you do on Facebook.

If you use Windows, I don't think it's reasonable to assume that Microsoft is downloading your browsing history and keystrokes.

> don't log all of my keystrokes across my entire operating system

Microsoft isn't doing this either, they are monitoring your usage of Cortana/System Search and your selection of its suggestions (just like Google does for Google Now,) to improve their algorithms. This is really being blown of proportion. Reminds me of people freaking out about Palladium with Project Longhorn.

How do you believe auto-suggest works?

You're comparing Microsoft's request to send ALL typing and "inking" (I assume that means touch and stylus events) to Google logging search terms?

No matter how you look at it, essentially reserving the right to install a key logger on your computer is unprecedented.

But reserving the right, or just saying 'Look, we don't know all of the cases where a programmer will say "and if the user corrects this, tell us we screwed up"' (for the optimist) is not the same as sending it all.

Auto-suggest in the address bar? That's a far cry from logging every keystroke I make in the entire browser.

Leprechauns, consulting an oracle, and simultaneously typing at Google HQ.