I think this is New Microsoft vs Old Microsoft. Everyone bitched that Old Microsoft took too long to roll out new technologies and major versions, because it Q

I think this is New Microsoft vs Old Microsoft. Everyone bitched that Old Microsoft took too long to roll out new technologies and major versions, because it QA'd the shit out of them, so New Microsoft retooled itself to ship faster. As a consequence, all the bad parts of Microsoft also got the ability to pull request whatever tacky KPI-booster-du-jour was on their pet project list. If MS gave a damn about this, they'd just make a core-only Windows set of packages available at install-time via flags. Because they know perfectly well what's 1st/3rd-party crapware and what's core-Windows.