Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19577 Makes Small Change to Diagnostics Data

Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19577 to Fast ring members of the Windows Insider Program yesterday. The new build's headlining feature is the addition of revamped options related to data collected for diagnostic purposes.

The change is minor--it doesn't seem like the amount of data collected for diagnostics purposes will change with Preview Build 19577. Instead, the settings related to that data have been renamed to better reflect Microsoft's policies.

Microsoft said the diagnostics settings found in the Settings app as well as Group Policy tools have been renamed from "Basic diagnostic data" and "Full diagnostic data" to "Required diagnostic data" and "Optional diagnostic data."

Those names make Microsoft's policy even clearer. There's no way to get out of sharing at least some diagnostic data with the company, but at least now Windows 10 users know they're expected to share that information no matter what.

Here's what Microsoft said about the change in its blog post:

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