The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) said it is happy with what the Glorious American overlord has defined sufficient for the French people and that Vole has done more than enough to reduce the amount of data that is collected. Users are now informed about data collection.

Announcing that it was dropping the lawsuit, the CNIL says that: "The company has reduced the volume of data collected under the 'base' level of its telemetry service by nearly half, identifying system problems and solving them. It limited this collection to the data strictly necessary to maintain the system and applications in good working order and to ensure their safety."

The Commission also notes that users are clearly warned not only about data collection but also that a unique identifier can be used to deliver targeted advertising.

The installation procedure for Windows 10 has been modified: users can not finalise the installation until they have expressed their choice of enabling or disabling the ad identifier. They may, moreover, return at any time to that choice.

Microsoft should be pleased that one batch of criticism has been dealt with, but while French regulators have gone away to surrender to someone else, other people who have complained might not be so easy to mollify.