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"It leaves those not familiar with Windows with a bad first impression" But an accurate impression. Windows main focus is Microsoft and partners product sales
by jasonkostempski 9y ago
"It leaves those not familiar with Windows with a bad first impression"
But an accurate impression. Windows main focus is Microsoft and partners product sales and ad delivery. No matter how much you remove after install, they're likely to override your very obvious wishes not to be bothered in a forced update.
- gargravarr 9y agoIt's for this reason that I have sworn off never, ever managing Windows again. The fact that they have turned many Win10 machines into billboards - and this is an OS you have to pay for! - really makes me sick. You cannot get away from advertising built deep into the core of the OS. And MS have deliberately taken away a lot of the control admins have over their own LAN. Even Enterprise editions of Win10 don't have control of the telemetry. And yes, I've seen first-hand the updates steamrollering your preferences and setting them to nice, MS-friendly 'please target me with marketing' options. I gave up Windows in 2008, was Mac full-time until 2015 and now I run Ubuntu exclusively, at home and work. Canonical aren't perfect, but they're a bit more open about their commercial expectations than MS will ever be.
- banderman 9y agoOn multiple occasions I have seen Windows 10 revert the default browser preference to Edge because "an error was detected" with no explanation of the error, and Chrome still functioning normally. I have also seen IE on Windows 10 revert the default search engine to Bing. I'm sure it's all just in the best interest of the end user...