And in all editions, there is a whitelist of IPs and Domains in kernel mode part of Win10. From their PR only the LTSB edition (most expensive one), allows one

And in all editions, there is a whitelist of IPs and Domains in kernel mode part of Win10. From their PR only the LTSB edition (most expensive one), allows one to disable all phone-home "features" (even there opt-out, and if you miss one, your bad) There is a reason Win7 goes still strong, and many are very carefully with recent patches of Win7 (which backport some phone-home features and degrade performance, like they did with WinXP3 in its last days). I am waiting until MSFT board member and lead managers get fired over this case. In the early 2000s, US went after adware and spyware distributers. Nowadays MSFT is the biggest adware and spyware distributer, please go after them. They should split MSFT up in two companies.