Defeating Win10 Spyware

cthulhu: "In order to improve your user experience," it sends a copy of everything you do to Microsoft. The EULA says that Microsoft can monetize any information they collect from you for any reason.....

Not to ignore the good advice about going Linux and all, but...

Somewhere in my bookmarks, I have saved some instructions, pages linked by good folks on here, about turning off all the spyware in Win10. Don't ask me to look it up at the moment, but supposedly so someone said. Assuming those worked, and...

If I don't use their business ware or videoplayer or any other MS software (except Notepad and Calculator), as I've done all along for years, what are the chances of defeating W10 from actually collecting anything from me?

Asking for a friend...!