shut up 10 quiets Win10 down considerably. Win7 has telemetry baked in as well, just not near as much. FWIW, Microsoft knew how many were pinning what to their taskbar, just an example of what they were watching. If you want an operating system that's not talking to anybody at all, you're looking at a linux flavor. IIRC, Ubuntu has also instituted telemetry. I think Linux Mint hasn't opted in to telemetry, not certain.