Which OS are you using?

If they "took it all out" there would be no network traffic after turning all of the features off.

IronDuke, the only article I could show you right away is in German, so that would be of little use for you.

schmatzler wrote:

IronDuke wrote: I asked my brother about it (he's a tech wiz) and he says that Microsoft took it all out.

That is absolutely not true. Microsoft is still doing a lot of stuff, like tracking your location by default or sending your contacts all to the cloud if you want to use Cortana.

One of the most criticized features is WiFi Sense, which shares your Wi-Fi password with all of your contacts (thus, uploading it to the cloud - very secure).

The default settings send a lot of your data to Cortana. I can understand why, but I don't want Cortana to know what I'm searching for or who the people I know are.

Even if you turn off all the privacy related settings you can find, there are still connections to various domains from Microsoft being made. Do you really know what they're transferring there?

If they "took it all out" there would be no network traffic after turning all of the features off.