Yes, but isn&#x27;t that basically letting the fox guard the hen house? If you already don&#x27;t trust Microsoft based on articles like this, depending on Microsoft&#x27;s firewall is not really a logical choice.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I have Windows 10 Home and Pro as well as Windows 7 on several machines, and according to my router Windows 10 is only slightly more talkative than 7. I think that is mostly the Windows Store and Cortana stuff. The dreaded telemetry from 10 has already been backported to 7 and 8&#x2F;8.1, so it&#x27;s better to say &quot;Windows tracks you&quot; rather than &quot;Windows 10 tracks you&quot;.