Math Geek :
can you provide citation for this? i understood that turning it off disabled cortana collection from you. of course there is still a ton of stuff MS collects that is not related but i am pretty sure there was some specific stuff only related to cortana that goes away with disabling it.
Just the upload data from my router. All of the uploads are encrypted so I can not say exactly what they contain.
Even with cortana,live search,suggested sites, search tracking,Bing removed, basically everything that I could find to turn off that might create upload data.
Then my testing was open Outlook and edit contacts with fake data. Upload packets sent.
Open Word and create a work contract. Upload packets sent.
Open Excel and start a spreadsheet. Upload packets sent.
Do a computer search with live search turned off. Upload packets sent.
Create a post on toms hardware on my main computer. then edit it. Go to the win10 computer and make the same edit and post it. The upload from the win10 computer is 40% larger than the upload packets from the win7 computer. So why is 40% more information sent from the win10 computer as compared to the win7 computer for the same edit?
Can I prove it?? not really ,as I can not intercept the packets and decrypt them.
But I can prove that just about everything you do on a win 10 computer creates upload packets.