It's not as bad as the vine says, but one thing that drives me crazy, is widgets.exe seems to get a new hash /often/ and I constantly get prompts for it.

It's all the installers that phone home at some point, and video drivers needing access etc. (Wireless displays come at a cost I guess).

sorry, that should have been "Windows version". I wasn't meaning to imply windows itself (although, yeah, from the stories it could be bad too with telemetry crap). i just meant Windows being such a large target for malware and what not