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They could already have access to your emails, because… you’re running their OS. They can slip in any code they want and run it with
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM-level privileges (comparable toroot-level privileges on Linux systems).If you run any other OS you’ll also have to trivially trust the makers of that OS with
root-level privileges (or comparable).(Personally I don’t believe that MS is scanning all your local emails, but they certainly have the technical possibilities to do so very trivially.)
They could, but we don't know. Not using their mail app at least makes that a possibility.