I would guess the amount of people who care enough, and are able to successfully disable all Telemetry, and prevent it from being re-enabled is so small that Microsoft doesn't care.

I would also be willing to bet that the majority of people who have it "disabled" are still sending back plenty of Telemetry. If you really care, your best option is to just not use Windows.

Most sensible answer.

They have lost my confidence as well after breaking* a Windows 7 machine I was using as an ad hoc server with updates that ammounted to little more than telemetry without announcing themselves as such.

* Set off a crash loop in connection with my setup that had been pretty conservatively setup. It was fixable, but a nonsense problem to deal with.

Nope: Remote code execution via RDP - https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...