Windows 10: 10 doesn’t fix the desktop it fixes 8's reputation

It's not a question of being right, or wrong. The question was how MS will track local and other searches in W10?

Yes, it could be that the kernel mode HTTP drivers, used by the system process in the captures, connections to duckduckgo is not related to the perceived tracking.

That's one of the connection that may not be part of the tracking, but Windows Explorer and Cortana are. Unless of course you'll tell me that I had configured the OS with these programs...*sarc

Blocking the two constant connection via the external firewall to MS servers by the"explorer.exe" resulted in a slower start up and to connect to one or two other MS server:





Subsequent start ups were at normal speed...

Since the current version is TR, MS may use these connections to collect error messages, performance data, etc., and will not be part of the RTM. I do hope that's the case, but but with other features in W10 that's unlikely in light of the previous Windows version. Certain searches in W8.x had been integrated with bing, even if on the surface one could disable it.

I have stated previously that MS is not the first one to integrate end user tracking in their software, there are others who had been doing that for years and years. As a business decision is probably the correct one from the financial perspective. Based on their market share, this could be very lucrative for MS.

I understand that most people like yourself do not care about being tracked, but I do. I will test the final version of W10 to see what call home features will remain. Thankfully, there are other options for OS, like previous versions of Windows, OSX, and if push comes to shove, there's Linux and FreeBSD. As the matter of fact, my OSX gets used more by now than Windows, so the transition shouldn't be that hard...

 

I didn't notice anything earth shattering in win-10 from 8.1
Wow they put a generic win flag as a start button wow that is tough and revolutionary *Smile
Start8 did that in seconds and did it better *Wink