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Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co)
An esteemed reader writes: Curious about the various telemetry and personal information being collected by Windows 10, one user installed Windows 10 Enterprise and disabled all of the telemetry and reporting options. Then he configured his router to log all the connections that happened anyway. Even after opting out wherever possible, his firewall captured Windows making around 4,000 connection attempts to 93 different IP addresses during an 8 hour period, with most of those IPs controlled by Microsoft. Even the enterprise version of Windows 10 is checking in with Redmond when you tell it not to — and it's doing so frequently.
gstoddart spare us your unoriginal mongoloid cretin scribblings!
I've been happy to disagree with gstoddart in the past, but he is 100 percent correct, and you dear AC - have gone full potato.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
[...] but you'll also lost OneDrive, Cortana and even Bing[...].
And nothing of value was lost.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.