Just some feedback from the field: I work with some high-security networks, and the perception from those Microsoft customers is that whatever "good" that has come from Microsoft improving security in general has been completely undermined by the pervasive telemetry.
Windows 10 alone has something like 200 individual settings for disabling its various forms of telemetry. Office adds several dozen more. Dotnet itself has telemetry, then PowerShell on top of that. VS Code and Visual Studio both send telemetry.
On and on, and on... and then some more, and on... and ON and ON and...
There's just no end to it.
As administrators, it's like playing whack-a-mole against a thousand moles that are breeding exponentially.
Windows 10 alone has something like 200 individual settings for disabling its various forms of telemetry. Office adds several dozen more. Dotnet itself has telemetry, then PowerShell on top of that. VS Code and Visual Studio both send telemetry.
On and on, and on... and then some more, and on... and ON and ON and...
There's just no end to it.
As administrators, it's like playing whack-a-mole against a thousand moles that are breeding exponentially.
We don't want to play this game any more.