As far as Microsoft giving a shit if we have other programs while it goes about it's business, it doesn't. At least gives me some power as to when Windows can actually call home, and try to engage in possible mischief. Ah well, seems we can only play with the cards we are dealt, if we decide to use Win10, so that's why I choose the adapter.
You can't even decide what updates you want to install anymore like we could in the past Windows iterations. I simply just can't trust it not to start running in the background, connecting to who knows where and running in the background, doing who knows what if I leave my connection intact. As much as I love Win10, which for the most part, I have found it to be the smoothest running of all the previous ones I have used over the years it unfortunately, as HereForTheBerr mentioned, has given us users less and less control over our OS. I figured that modern programs will have sorted out these stability and compatibility issues, or that Microsoft would have the forethought to not update while other programs are running.
I always used to game offline to avoid this sort of thing. VWood: Yes, I think I'll do this from now on.