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Really? MS had consolidated their online services into one login/authentication system years beforehand. Hotmail, Outlook,com, XBOX Live, etc all use the same accounts. It's why I expected they would do that, they'd done it with everything else they owned.
You have to mod everything to avoid telemetry nowadays. I'd be surprised if my dishwasher wasn't quietly sending data to Samsung at this point.
I never had accounts for any of those.
Also not many but some few games have opt in telemetry. Now that I think about it I'm unsure how many games that I play have telemetry but they mostly are offline games (like Minecraft can be) which shouldn't have telemetry. I should really check some of them.