I also have reason to believe that Windows 10 has been optimized to be NSA compliant. Any information that exists on a windows machine has to be assumed to be public information.
Microsoft is completely to blame for their own business practices. They market protection schemes in the form of updates that are themselves malware. Then they force updates against the will of users. As a software dev with over 20 years experience, I've since come to the conclusion that I will not write software anymore that just targets that OS.
I agree with that, I think that they have def been working with the government to make their products more accesable to them.