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It's getting more and more tiresome having to read every single KB article for every single Win update to ensure Microsoft are not trying to pull this.

I avoided these updates already but I spent 30 minutes doing the research. I may soon have to "opt-out" of Windows altogether as it is beginning to take more of my time dodging the privacy bullets than I want to spend.

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( a six-day-old list of such updates is available on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10111307 )

Really the last two things I use it for are games and my irrational attachment to a 2 GB Outlook file containing stuff I will probably never look at again.

You can convert all your outlook emails to .eml files and import them into Thuderbird or whichever other client you use.

there is a linux package called readpst that, as its names suggests, read's the contents of the PST and can output into mailbox or maildir formats. Thunderbird seems to be happy with its default output

Edit: corrected a typo

Instead of opting out of Windows, why not just opt out of the customer experience improvement program?

It's not hard. Instead of "yes", choose "no".

So long as there are clear and working implementations of opt-out, you're right. Recently people were saying that even with the Windows 10 options turned off, Windows was still making connections and even sending data when search was initiated.

Opting out of most of the data collection in Windows 10 at least is incredibly difficult. The options given to you during install and in the OS settings cover only a fraction of that total collection.

Perhaps even impossible without setting up some vigorous third party software firewall rules and keeping on top of them to make sure new domains that harvest this data are not added.

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