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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
Personally I don't know what market research Microsoft are relying upon for their decisions regarding this. But I suspect they have gone further in their research than using your own specific personal needs as defining; after all, if they were to have relied on those, your lack of use for anything Microsoft would mean that they would have gotten out of the IT business long ago  .
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I am still confident that the market is saturated with ways of syncing data.
And application settings run the gamut from "no one gives a darn" to "gmail.com already knows it".
Anyway, that is only a reason in the event that settings are actually transferred, so I would think that using a local Windows account would have the side effect of disabling telemetry.
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No, I think the simple explanation is reasonable enough, no need to go hunting for excuses.
Microsoft is doing it for the exact reasons they specified -- to get automatic feedback on features used and bugs/crashes encountered.
Whether that is objectionable depends on the person, but privacy advocacy groups exist for a reason, and some people just don't see why there is any need to collect data for something they aren't interested in.