>>1327150>W7 never talked to me like i was a child while trying to convince me to give microsoft my precious telemetry, Yes it did, pic related. "help Microsoft improve Windows" means "turn on telemetry".
>didn't dumb down the UI for the sake of "user friendliness"Yes it did. 7/Vista is a significant dumbing-down of XP. Look at, for example, the wifi control panel, which isn't even a control panel in 7, just a system tray menu. Or the inexorable drive to move everything into Settings, which is a webpage masquerading as your control panel. 7/Vista also marked the beginning of the use of conversional language throughout the OS.
>didn't shill the next version of windows on startup that you have to say no to 3 separate times just to get to the desktop.This is also free though, why not just install it? Windows has nagged you to install updates since XPSP2, it has to because if you were super special and the only one who didn't keep his computer up-to-date, we wouldn't have worms, but you're not, so we do, so windows now has to nag everybody.
>it's not rose tinted glassesYes it is, reinstall it yourself if you don't believe the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1udmTSNeE 