yeah - this is why I mentioned using an external firewall!I wouldn't trust built-in firewall to check telemetry tbh. There might be a way to get updates while blocking telemetry but even blocking telemetry has it's limits. 3rd party firewall software might not be able to detect if we are connecting to some specific microsoft servers or not because of the fact that windows is a closed sourced OS, so who knows what is going inside it.
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Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the medical, business software would work fine in Wine if they were allowed to test!I won't even get started on the software that runs on the medical equipment or is used by the billing dept.
But we all know that the software companies of these places would not officially support running it this way, and so the business simply wouldn't do it.