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Re:Epic Games founder says Microsoft's patches will make Ste... by squeaky-clean on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:21AM (#12173529)
It appears to be disabled by default, though it's not very difficult to enable. I bet this would confuse a huge number of non-technical users.

http://www.howtogeek.com/219651/windows-10-allows-you-to-sid...

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Re:Epic Games founder says Microsoft's patches will make Ste... by WorldMaker on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:30AM (#12173602)
It has been enabled by default since November's update to Windows 10.
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Re:Epic Games founder says Microsoft's patches will make Ste... by GrumpyYoungMan on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:30AM (#12173604)
How odd. I just re-checked two freshly installed Windows 10 Pro systems I have next to me and that setting is configured to allow sideloading by default. Perhaps it's a recent change?
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