Abusive Monopolies will
Abusive Monopolies will always be ragged on, and M$ is one Abusive Monopoly! It’s too bad our elected officials are too corrupt to enforce the Abusive Monopoly laws already enacted! Apple is not trying to push its closed OS ecosystem onto any third party OEM produced PC/Laptop hardware like M$ is!

This is much ado bout nothing, much like the ‘privacy’ issue in Windows 10. Real Storm in a Teacup stuff.

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This is indeed true and the

This is indeed true and the spread of encryption for home users is a good thing, however it is valuable to know that there is another copy of your key floating out there.  I'm not saying this is good or bad, only that it is another example of the poor communication from Microsoft about the features included in Win10, some will want to delete the key, others will be glad to know they aren't borked if they lose access.

Remember, this is for encrypted-out-of-the-box devices. If you have one of the Professional Windows variants and are using Bitlocker rather than Device Encryption, storing the recovery key becomes YOUR job unless you select the box to allow Microsoft to store it.

Whenever you start a news article with sigh, it is a waste of real estate.

Sure, but since 8.1 devices
Sure, but since 8.1 devices with SSDs that met other security and IO requirements (TPM, Secure Boot) automatically encrypted silently with Bitlocker as a security measure after you logged in with an MS account. The whole point of that Microsoft Account requirement is so the device could be recovered if the user forgot their password or some other event caused the TPM to think some interference had happened (and this can be caused by a lot in Windows, I saw it a half dozen times across Dell tablets deployed in a school district I supported). If you’re 100% certain you can move the key elsewhere and keep it available in case of disaster, fine, delete it. But I worry this freak out means well meaning geeks will delete the keys for friends and relatives and then render their data unrecoverable when something bad happens. A PC isn’t like an iPad or phone, you have to have a method of recovery, or be sure you have a really reliable backup(s).