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I ended up just disabling the one on mine

I did too. And later I did a bios upgrade that enabled the chip again and suddenly windows started showing me pop ups and telling me to upgrade.

After a lot of panic and powering down on an upgrade screen without a 'no' button I went to the bios and found my setting reset. Then I put a group policy in place not allowing such despicable behaviour.

Does Microsoft have any idea of the amount of stress they cause? They clearly don't care, at least at management level, but I wonder if they are even aware.

How could they be unaware?

It's such a widely hated behaviour that tv shows take the piss out of them for it: https://youtu.be/2zpCOYkdvTQ?si=_qGffU2M3k847C3H&t=8

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