Yea, it leaks over the internet all over the place. There are multiple ‘settings’ that will conflict and err on the side of transmit to Microsoft.
I did a clean install on another disk and uninstalled the upgrade on my original disk. Twice, with nothing installed other than windows and chrome I’ve had two BSOD and when rebooted it reset my local login to require Microsoft’s livelink password.
I like the interface. It’s a pain though to stumble through looking for things like control panel, but you can setup shortcuts to it once you find it.
Perhaps Cortana can outdo Siri and print out the info stored on Hitlery’s private server in the barn or wherever.
Hit the windows key + x.