I don't think windoze 10 is the culprit 100%. If e-mails and voicemail and texting are collected then it is from any device that can create those documents. The advantages it has over mouse driven OS's is that it is touch-screen based and that is the mode that will be explored in the future. I wouldn't mind having a 9" tablet that is touchscreen and that is 'the mouse/keyboard' combination and if you can run two at a time all it takes is connecting it. First change I would make is to change the QWERTY layout for a single handed DVORAK layout and in a visual form the layout is easy to adjust too. Why bother, the DVORAK layout would allow you to type 2x as fast and maybe even faster depending on how slow you are. For me it would save time doing editing for keystroke errors but modifying a keyboard means all keyboards I type on would also need to be changed. Using that as the mouse would result in a larger screed (2x 32" of the extra crisp version monitors rather than 1 larger one)
Since ANDROID is available as an ISO that could be installed on a machine running Win10 using Virtual Box without the need for installing from the BIOS. That would be the system that most peole would be using as an alternative and if you start off with that you could skip learning win10 and just use it as a host system and use the rest of your disk as the drive for the virtual box. That storage method is secure in that you can make the file too damn big to copy and snooping programs can be defended against.
Yes, it works well, but unless you take steps to prevent it, as we've been discussing here, it's also spying on everything you do and reporting it all to Microsoft.
Microsoft is the collector, they pass the information on to the ones that sift through it. Business secrets and Government and Military secrets would have inspired the base programs and the public is more or less the final link in the chain of 'who gets tracked' rather than 'who gets spied on' as that would include everybody, not everybody has the authority to search the data base. The 'Government" is fine looking for ways to track what person does what but they balk at citizens having the right to track them using a fine toothed comb in that they serve the public rather than the people serve the Government (of other Nations) There is only one group could use all the data that could be collected.
Gerr proposed the idea that if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't mind being looked at. That doesn't apply to all groups equally as the 'authorities' are supposed to be 'honest' yet they demand the most secrecy of any group. Why that doesn't set off alarm bells means the system that used to be protection is broken. The Watch Groups used to have the authority (and the time and the people) to look closely at what the Govt (and business) did as far as affecting the public/consumers. If the public retires at 65-75 then that should apply to the ones looking at the data also. Rather than shoot them they could become the teachers at the higher schools (or local) and they could teach that up and coming generation all the tricks that worked and didn't work as far as pulling the wool over other people's eyes.