Do you think that it is better with iOS?
Or it is better with Microsoft Windows that you have installed in your PC? We are leaking information from any device we are using.
Compared to Android,IOS is lot better in term so privacy.
Microsoft is stealing our information? Don't think so!
The reason microsoft asks you to connect every app you are using with an email in not only for giving access and tackle piracy, it is also for tracking your data and save them in their databases.
I am using windows pc all the time and not sure about the email you are talking about.I never connect any of my emails on pc and I even disable auto updates too often because it sucks lot of data and memory at background.
You can disable anything you want on pcs.
They do the same thing as google does but we have an option to turn off updates.
But I think their system is just like google that whenever you turn on once the updates, all of the activities that you did on your computer will be tracked and saved immediately to their db.