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Even with your cherry picked data, guess what?

http://init.sh/wp-content/uplo...

You can wipe windows 10 and put linux on it. Have Mint on mine.

http://init.sh/?p=354

The data is NOT anonymized. Back when this all started I sent a request to Microsoft to know what kind of data was collected. They needed my Microsoft account name and the name of the computer. They then sent me a breakdown of the data collected. 1.2 million data points for a computer that had all the provided privacy options turned off (meaning disabled in settings). The laptop was simply loaded with windows 10, minimally configured to include things like the Japanese IME, and then left, logged on, unused, for 1 week. It simply sat there. 1.2 million data points collected. Details of the breakdown and conversation with Microsoft on my blog: http://init.sh/

Well, not totally unwilling to discuss it:

http://init.sh/?p=331

Well, not totally refusing to discuss it:

http://init.sh/?p=331

If Microsoft is collecting anything

If? 1.2 million datapoints collected from a Windows 10 install with all the privacy settings turned off which had only been online for 6 days: https://init.sh/?p=331

Disabling those options doesn't do much either. Microsoft collected 1.2 million points of data from my computer over the course of 6 days. This is with all the privacy options disabled. Details here: http://init.sh/?p=331

This story must be crazy old because M2 is offline and has been for a while. M1 is available but it's tumbling and nobody's sure when it's going to quit. Complete tutorial on how to do these kinds of decodes, plus normal NOAA APT reception here: http://init.sh/?p=275

Full disclosure. I own init.sh. No ads on the site.

How to disable those apps:
This article focuses on Cortana but the end shows other apps to disable as well. Basically not uninstalling them so much as renaming the app folder after killing the process:

http://init.sh/?p=251

http://init.sh/?p=236

There is a list of domains to block in that article.

Blocking these domains will make your version of Windows 10 "Unconnected". To Microsoft at least.

dns.msftncsi.com
ipv6.msftncsi.com
win10.ipv6.microsoft.com
ipv6.msftncsi.com.edgesuite.net
a978.i6g1.akamai.net
win10.ipv6.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
en-us.appex-rf.msn.com
v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
client.wns.windows.com
wildcard.appex-rf.msn.com.edgesuite.net
v10.vortex-win.data.metron.life.com.nsatc.net
wns.notify.windows.com.akadns.net
americas2.notify.windows.com.akadns.net
travel.tile.appex.bing.com
www.bing.com
any.edge.bing.com
fe3.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
fe3.delivery.dsp.mp.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
ssw.live.com
ssw.live.com.nsatc.net
login.live.com
login.live.com.nsatc.net
directory.services.live.com
directory.services.live.com.akadns.net
bl3302.storage.live.com
skyapi.live.net
bl3302geo.storage.dkyprod.akadns.net
skyapi.skyprod.akadns.net
skydrive.wns.windows.com
register.mesh.com
BN1WNS2011508.wns.windows.com
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
settings.data.glbdns2.microsoft.com
OneSettings-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net

http://init.sh/?p=236

[HOWTO] Arduino Duemilanove Playstation 3 Jailbreak - Part 1: Hardware Build

That should do it right there.

That box has a proper tcp/ip stack included IIRC:
netcat and dd