What is scary is the lack of GPOs to turn this stuff off which you'd expect in an enterprise product. Technically we can't apply policy to make this compliant with our data protection requirements.
Their funeral to be honest.
Can you give some examples of the stuff that does actually have switches?
Yeah, if you disable the Search thing in the start menu for example, it _does_ stop sending your queries to Bing. That switch does work. It just sends a bunch of tracking info instead.
On Enterprise, you can also disable telemetry which does appear to work.
(Supporting Windows is 10X more work than all other platforms combined due to stupid "can't reproduce here" problems on rotted and unpatched Windows machines and general Windows driver API hell. I am including Android and less-commonly-used OSS operating systems like FreeBSD and OpenBSD.)