Windows 11 pinging Steam on a newly purchased, clean laptop? WHY?

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3 years ago

If anyone from Valve is here, in a position to answer: Why on earth is Windows 11 pinging Steam servers immediately after the FIRST boot, on a CLEAN, newly purchased laptop, with nothing installed, and without user consent?

What data is being shared?

What's the nature of that specific relationship between Microsoft and Valve?

CONTEXT (Source): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT4vDfA_4NI

Additional coverage: https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html

I really hope we can get an official statement, so the open source community can (hopefully) continue appreciating what Valve does for Linux and gaming.

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