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Pedantic. Every Windows OEM is doing this and M$ seems to encourage it to make their windows devices cheaper.
by ecf 5y ago
Pedantic. Every Windows OEM is doing this and M$ seems to encourage it to make their windows devices cheaper.
- fortran77 5y agoMicrosoft Surface machines don’t have this. Microsoft doesn’t like it at all.
- rhexs 5y agoMicrosoft has every fresh windows 10/11 install automatically download garbage like candy crush. They don’t like it at all?
- vikingerik 5y agoMicrosoft hates McAfee and the other malware packages, because they know full well how badly they screw up all sorts of internal workings of Windows. Much of Microsoft's own tech support workload is caused by shitty antiviruses. The reason Microsoft made Security Essentials / Defender was to deal with that, to displace the others and reduce Microsoft's own support workload. Candy Crush isn't anything like that, it doesn't screw up OS functionality. (Well, subjectively, you might consider ads and upsells in the UI broken.)
- jeromegv 5y agoIf Microsoft doesn’t like it, they could prevent OEM from doing it through licensing. They don’t. It’s been like that for decades.
- forgotpwd16 5y ago>they could prevent OEM from doing it through licensing Preventing installation of third-party software. This will certainly go well in Europe.
- tyrfing 5y agoUnlikely, seems like it would be a huge antitrust issue. Google can't dictate what OEMs install either.
- guitarbill 5y agoThey could've had e.g. "Windows Fresh" campaign/symbol for vendors to use if it was an unmodified Windows. But there's likely no incentive. It cuts into OEM profit, and maybe it would reduce support calls? Ultimately though, most people don't care. And the ones that do simply reinstall Windows on a new PC, because it's quicker that way.
- Rastonbury 5y agoThat's not what pedantic means
- rejectfinite 5y ago