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Microsoft learned from the years of its own users accepting 3rd party malware on their machines pre Win-7, and pretty much all phone users (Android definitely,
by MiddleEndian 2y ago
Microsoft learned from the years of its own users accepting 3rd party malware on their machines pre Win-7, and pretty much all phone users (Android definitely, probably iOS as well but I'm less familiar) accepting unremovable bloatware, so they added it back with Win8+.
Honestly Windows 10 is/was pretty good once you removed the MS malware but they're definitely antagonistic as a whole.