yeah but like XP you had to agree to it (might be wrong about 2k can't remember much of it)
office also spyed on you but again only if you "agreed" to it for their "improvement program" (or whatever it was called back then)
when double facepalm isn't enough...
heres a basic thing for you then...
just because they put in something into their product, where do you see a proof it is "unchanged"
what ? linux users will do it by dling from repo ?