Yes ask your boss.<p>&gt; We will lose credibility with our customers if we claim that our application does not collect any usage data when this is going out over the wire.<p>Microsoft wasted Win10 and Office 2016 already (and sneaked it into newer Win7&amp;8 updates). It would have been such a great chance after the misguided&#x2F;failed Win8, but then MS decided to add invasive telemetry and other phone home crap incl whitelisting IPs and URLs in kernel mode network layer, with no way to deactivate all of it - don&#x27;t even think MS respects you as a end consumer (you are their sheep and loose control of your PC) and not even as enterprise customer nor with LTSB (except you request a custom build of the network stack).