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@konrad As is often the case there's a hint of truth but overall it's misleading. They're not talking about the old-school Win32 games, but rather the new Xbox

@konrad As is often the case there's a hint of truth but overall it's misleading. They're not talking about the old-school Win32 games, but rather the new Xbox Live-enabled games which are free-to-play and offer a bunch of premium functionality like tournaments and regular content additions - things most people don't need but some enthusiasts presumably appreciate. You can play it for free with a much, much wider range of games and features than the old 1992 classic. Updates should never reinstall anything you've removed (including Candy Crush).

wlesieutre 10y ago
> Updates should never reinstall anything you've removed (including Candy Crush). And yet it did. Looking into it, MS is playing the "bug" card and has said it won't happen next time. I'm not sure whether to believe them, or if it was a "we wanted to see if we could get away with it" approach to getting more ad installs. https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/08/24/anniversary-update-restores-deleted-apps.aspx https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/08/24/anniversary-update-re... While it shouldn't be reinstalling apps you've removed, they still intend to automatically add new "promoted apps" to your start menu. But each time they sell a slot, you should only need to remove it the one time and it won't come back.
- BrandonLive 10y ago
  This is incorrect. The programmed pinned apps in the current releases of Win10 are only applied to new installs or when upgrading from Win7 or 8.x. They are never applied during Win10 updates (unless there's a bug of course). The entire pinned space is customizable by the user and user customizations are always maintained.
konradb 10y ago
Ah I see, I figured this was just plain Minesweeper that you could have played on an Apple ][e! Thanks for the info, it isn't quite as bad as it initially sounded. Shame that there is still advertising in the OS though.

wlesieutre 10y ago

> Updates should never reinstall anything you've removed (including Candy Crush). And yet it did. Looking into it, MS is playing the "bug" card and has said it won't happen next time. I'm not sure whether to believe them, or if it was a "we wanted to see if we could get away with it" approach to getting more ad installs. https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/08/24/anniversary-update-restores-deleted-apps.aspx https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/08/24/anniversary-update-re... While it shouldn't be reinstalling apps you've removed, they still intend to automatically add new "promoted apps" to your start menu. But each time they sell a slot, you should only need to remove it the one time and it won't come back.

BrandonLive 10y ago
This is incorrect. The programmed pinned apps in the current releases of Win10 are only applied to new installs or when upgrading from Win7 or 8.x. They are never applied during Win10 updates (unless there's a bug of course). The entire pinned space is customizable by the user and user customizations are always maintained.

konradb 10y ago

Ah I see, I figured this was just plain Minesweeper that you could have played on an Apple ][e! Thanks for the info, it isn't quite as bad as it initially sounded. Shame that there is still advertising in the OS though.