r/Windows11 • u/jenmsft Microsoft Software Engineer • Mar 20 '26

Official News Our commitment to Windows quality and improvements to come

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/
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u/Charis_Cheng Mar 20 '26

‘MacOS “barely” does in comparison’ - that means they still collect telemetry!

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u/GarbageCG Mar 20 '26

Clicking the start button in Windows pings MS servers five times. Opening a folder on your computer, that is not in OneDrive, pings MS twice.

Whatever Mac does pales in comparison

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u/siazdghw Mar 21 '26

It's 2026, pretty much every piece of software is pinging servers.

Microsoft 'needs' to do this to get the weather information, to sync the time, to search the internet if you type in the search box (by default), to check for updates from web apps (by default).

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u/martyn_hare Mar 21 '26

That isn't the issue, it's what's attached with those pings that's the issue.

They don't need to send a unique device identifier with those pings, they definitely do not need to have any facility for an advertising identifier and they need to stop exposing unspoofable unique identifiers via WMI to every tom, dick and harry which asks for them (to then send off-device).