With the shady path they’ve been on lately, I wouldn’t be surprised if they locked down the home editions to only using their servers, so they can use the data points/telemetry to sell ads, etc.

Results matter more than tracking productivity to this level. This stuff is gross.

Would this require them to secretly get an exploit into a device first? I have to imagine the device manufacturers can’t be compelled to provide a backdoor.

Having to register on new ones is annoying though.