Also ads for Candy Crush in you operating system.
Microsoft is scum. They have not changed from the 90s, they are just better at hiding it.
Microsoft is scum. They have not changed from the 90s, they are just better at hiding it.
Really the deal breakers for me recently are:
1. Privacy defaults to none and can only be optimised for none in Windows 10. Only did they back down for enterprise customers because they know they wouldn’t get away with it.
2. Bundling of crapware.
3. Shipping on by default telemetry in dev toolchain (.net core)
4. Blinding marketing detracting from the masses of data collection.
5. Any attempts to confront this result in silence, “it’s good for you” or “tough shit”.
They’re not a good citizen. They just tell you they are.
Unfortunately my livelihood depends on them at least in the short term.
In today's world where the OS is the web, that doesn't really apply.
You can disable those ads. You can remove apps like Skype. Manually or with an app such as O&O Shut Up. I also use Classic Shell instead of the new start menu.
Really? I though that was just standard corporate marketing.
Do you buy a car and have to peel all the advertising stickers off the windscreen, disable the tracking devices and scrub candy crush off the dashboard.
Nope.
Yep, something akin to that. Nearly all dealerships - whether luxury brands or not - place some form of dealership identification / promotion on your car when you buy it and without asking permission. That can be a sticker in the door well, it can be an obnoxious attached badge physically on the car surface (never happens with luxury dealerships), it can be a license plate frame, and so on.
I hate them! I've scrubbed them off a few cars now.
My current one is an 08.
Agreed.
They're no longer selling software licences, but targeted ads based on what you do locally on your personal computer.
And people "allow" this by not jumping through hoops to disable it.
They're doing both, but Google does something like that as well (that doesn't make it right, but it puts it in perspective that its the newest rage), and Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. The old Microsoft was much more evil than the current.
What about Guitar Hero crap boundled with every Mac?
How dare they ship privacy respecting productivity software with their OS instead of Candy Crush!
But indeed, are we really comparing a productivity tool that isn't used to extract more money to a third-party game that thrives on in-app purchases?
I guess that Windows users are generally less upset about such bundling, since OEMs have done it for years.
Windows users, myself included, have always been upset about the bundling. When you buy a PC these days you have to spend about 2-3 hours removing all the crap from it or doing an install from scratch to remove the cocked up default windows install. I think that less upset is more toleration via attrition. Accepting the status quo.
In a stock install of Windows you will have Windows Store installs of Candy Crush and some other junk, but none of it is running when the machine boots. It's also very simple to delete, but it is annoying it is there in the first place.
Microsoft placed it into my library and you can't remove it unless you first install it and then uninstall it and I don't want to install it so I'm stuck with it. It's egregiously a dark pattern[0]. On the other hand Garage Band is first party code which presumably enjoys the same level of quality as the main OS so it's fine.
Same thing on iOS.
Edit: changed “the App Store” to “their app store”, since that’s a common term that Apple shouldn’t have been able to misappropriate.