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At first I thought you were joking; however a quick search reveals that indeed God has forsaken us.

https://microsoftcasualgames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1...

The OS is now "free" and Solitaire is now paid product? Is this the pure definition of irony?

OP: You've done a wonderful job with this!

All credit goes to the original creator, I just posted the link :-)

I had to use Windows machine to test an app recently and the amount of ads and other annoyances there is just mindblowing. I wanted to show Solitaire to my kids but it's so ad-ridden it's painful to play.

I'm strongly considering just reformatting the drive and putting Linux in there.

Consider Windows a live-service, free-to-play OS.

I carry those old games from old windows installs. They won't run "natively" on modern windows, however someone ported a subset of WINE, winevdm, to windows called otvdm.

I was playing Chips Challenge yesterday!

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

$2 a month for solitaire?!?!