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Privacy and telemetry
On by default, and hard to describe.
Diagnostics that cannot be fully switched off, a search box that sends what you type to a server, an activity history tied to an account, and settings pages that describe categories rather than data. Opting out is a series of toggles that update restores.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on Microsoft Sucks
Filed under other categories, by people it happened to.
Account lockout2026-08-07
Locked out of the account your computer signs in with
When the login for your email is also the login for your laptop, your Office licence and your encrypted drive, one account decision reaches into the machine sitting in front of you. Here is what to do — and what to set up now so it cannot.
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