Windows 10 data collection continues to concern many Microsoft customers, although the company has repeatedly stated that it does not collect any personal information, except for application malfunction data and performance reports, which could help improve the operating system.
Of course, there are those who directly accuse Microsoft of using Windows 10 to collect information from millions of users.
Although almost all connections made by Windows 10 lead to Microsoft servers, there is no evidence of the type of data collected by the company, due to the operating system's closed source code.
According to a Forbes publication, Microsoft is promising further tweaks to Windows 10 that will allow users to completely disable telemetry and block any data being sent to the company.
But there is something very important to note.
First of all, Microsoft promised more or less the same thing last September, when Terry Myerson, the company's CEO, mentioned in a blog post that Redmond plans to give users more control over the data collected by the operating system.
At the time, Myerson explained that users will gain more control over Windows 10's telemetry services, but it is recommended that they allow crash data to be sent, as it helps the company improve the operating system's performance and fix issues that would otherwise be impossible to detect.
Today's post pretty much makes the same promise, without giving any commitment from Microsoft on when we'll see it happen. Forbes, on the other hand, says that "the statement was for updates coming in 2016."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/02/11/microsoft-makes-windows-10-u-turn
