[btb]

I just hope its not part of some plan to sneak in windows 10-style spyware onto older windows versions, by bundling it up with important security updates one pretty much have to install. At least the windows 10 upgrade we could say no to.

[ctolkien]

If you're referring to the telemetry in Win10, similar telemetry was patched into Win7 a long time ago.

[Silhouette]

But on Windows 7, you could choose not to install updates you didn't want or to uninstall them later, and many people did.

The obvious suspicion here is that bundling the changes is an excuse for Microsoft to force updates people don't want, Windows 10 style, onto people whose Windows 7/8 systems currently allow them to choose.

[walterbell]

In theory, aren't those individual update packages removable?

[ordinary]

Yes. Incomplete list for Windows 7: 3015249, 3022345, 3068708, 3080149, 3175249.

[pjc50]

Does anyone know what's in the telemetry yet?