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Two days ago a friend found Spotify installed on hers Windows 10 laptop, pushed by Microsoft, even on the taskbar. That's insane. Windows 10 will be my last Win

Two days ago a friend found Spotify installed on hers Windows 10 laptop, pushed by Microsoft, even on the taskbar. That's insane. Windows 10 will be my last Windows ever.

unnouinceput 4y ago
I highly doubt that Microsoft did that and more likely her little brother or somebody else who used the laptop and didn't told her did it.
- albertopv 4y ago
  Not this time, she lives alone, there's no one else who could have done it and she's not tech savvy, not at all, I bought and configured that laptop my self for her.
  - unnouinceput 4y ago
    "... she's not tech savvy..." - well, I guess we found the culprit. You did let her use it with full admin rights, didn't you? I recommend go to local policy and enable full audit for everything. When this happens in the future you'll have a clear picture of who/when/what.
    - albertopv 4y ago
      She barely knows how to open outlook, let alone go to ms store and install a sw. Please don't try to defend MS, not this time. I found plenty of casual games installed in my work win10 PC. It's MS.
      - hedora 4y ago
        According to duck duck go, multiple people complained about Spotify auto installing on their windows box two days ago. I completely stopped using windows in the 8.1 days (forced telemetry was the last straw). I can't imagine dealing with the sorts of gaslighting you are experiencing. Happily, a combination of steam proton and dosbox run dos / windows games on my Linux desktop more smoothly than native ever did, and that was my last missing use case.
        albertopv 4y ago
        https://www.reviewgeek.com/131649/spotify-is-installing-itself-on-some-windows-pcs/ https://www.reviewgeek.com/131649/spotify-is-installing-itse...
Animats 4y ago
Windows 7 was my last Windows ever. Ads are unacceptable. I used to have a Windows 7 system and a Ubuntu system. One day the Windows system broke down, and I switched to using the Ubuntu system for almost everything. Over time, that became "everything". I haven't turned on the Windows system in months.
drpixie 4y ago
Absolutely ... Windows config gets changed with every significant upgrade. The things I've carefully set-up get disabled, other things just stop working, and new garbage appears ... Windows is not a stable work platform. It's become an ad platform :( And all the time, I have to fight the Microsoft way of doing things ... Worse the Apple, Microsoft push really hard to force me to do things their way. Eg. initially and after upgrade, it defaults to save everything on the MS cloud - NO, I have a perfectly good cloud of my own and don't want to pay MS extra.
humanistbot 4y ago
Nope. User error or spyware.

Two days ago a friend found Spotify installed on hers Windows 10 laptop, pushed by Microsoft, even on the taskbar. That's insane. Windows 10 will be my last Windows ever.

unnouinceput 4y ago

I highly doubt that Microsoft did that and more likely her little brother or somebody else who used the laptop and didn't told her did it.

albertopv 4y ago
Not this time, she lives alone, there's no one else who could have done it and she's not tech savvy, not at all, I bought and configured that laptop my self for her.
- unnouinceput 4y ago
  "... she's not tech savvy..." - well, I guess we found the culprit. You did let her use it with full admin rights, didn't you? I recommend go to local policy and enable full audit for everything. When this happens in the future you'll have a clear picture of who/when/what.
  - albertopv 4y ago
    She barely knows how to open outlook, let alone go to ms store and install a sw. Please don't try to defend MS, not this time. I found plenty of casual games installed in my work win10 PC. It's MS.
    - hedora 4y ago
      According to duck duck go, multiple people complained about Spotify auto installing on their windows box two days ago. I completely stopped using windows in the 8.1 days (forced telemetry was the last straw). I can't imagine dealing with the sorts of gaslighting you are experiencing. Happily, a combination of steam proton and dosbox run dos / windows games on my Linux desktop more smoothly than native ever did, and that was my last missing use case.
      - albertopv 4y ago
        https://www.reviewgeek.com/131649/spotify-is-installing-itself-on-some-windows-pcs/ https://www.reviewgeek.com/131649/spotify-is-installing-itse...

Animats 4y ago

Windows 7 was my last Windows ever. Ads are unacceptable. I used to have a Windows 7 system and a Ubuntu system. One day the Windows system broke down, and I switched to using the Ubuntu system for almost everything. Over time, that became "everything". I haven't turned on the Windows system in months.

drpixie 4y ago

Absolutely ... Windows config gets changed with every significant upgrade. The things I've carefully set-up get disabled, other things just stop working, and new garbage appears ... Windows is not a stable work platform. It's become an ad platform :( And all the time, I have to fight the Microsoft way of doing things ... Worse the Apple, Microsoft push really hard to force me to do things their way. Eg. initially and after upgrade, it defaults to save everything on the MS cloud - NO, I have a perfectly good cloud of my own and don't want to pay MS extra.

humanistbot 4y ago

Nope. User error or spyware.