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The weird thing is, those applications aren't "removed" when you uninstall them: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1099533-advertisement-in-metro-apps/page__vie

• drivebyacct2 14y ago
  It's just like Android, they're part of a system image. No conspiracy here. It's likely due to some intricacies of licensing Windows Store apps which I'll not get into.
  • Evbn 14y ago
    Android is worse. You can't even disable in built apps, so junk like Play Magazines and Twitter sucks up RAM and CPU forever.
    • SquareWheel 14y ago
      I can imagine disk space, but why would they be running in the background?
    • drivebyacct2 14y ago
      That hasn't been true for well over a year, probably a year and a half now. Running apps don't use CPU, default apps (now) don't often have services anyways so. yeah