I'm no windows expert but I recall windows had introduced some signature checking and other security measures in Windows. Chances are that more than telemetry,

I'm no windows expert but I recall windows had introduced some signature checking and other security measures in Windows. Chances are that more than telemetry, some of that kind of checks are being made on the binary and the libraries it loads on startup. I'm a 100% GNU/Linux guy but it would be dishonest not to acknowledge that Windows security has improved a lot if compared to where it was once upon a time. It's a big sad thing that Microsoft is pushing so many dystopic stuff, Windows could have become a great OS.