Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking

Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by jbigelow76 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:00PM (#16387048)

I think it shows how little value Windows is to Microsoft anymore. Office 365 and Azure are where the money is at for the company now.

I use Win 10 Enterprise at work so I don't have to worry about any of the Candy Crush or FB malware trash on my PC but no way would I buy a consumer Windows based laptop anymore.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by tjalfi on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:15PM (#16387699)

I use Windows 10 Enterprise at work and our image team had to specifically remove Candy Crush. It’s actually more annoying than that, the semiannual OS updates cause Candy Crush to be reinstalled.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by paulryanrogers on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:19PM (#16387727)

This is very unprofessional. Sadly iOS suffers a similar fate with Bluetooth.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by urda on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:49PM (#16388482)

> Sadly iOS suffers a similar fate with Bluetooth.

What are you talking about?

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by paulryanrogers on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:10PM (#16388602)

Updates re-enable Bluetooth regardless of the user's preference [0]. (Or did until newer versions, I haven't updated one in a while.)

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/this-is-why-apple-enables-blue...

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by urda on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:52PM (#16396785)

Enabling a a core wireless radio feature != installing unwanted software.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by paulryanrogers on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:19PM (#16414550)

True, but I'd classify both as overriding explicit user preferences.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by IshKebab on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:34PM (#16387865)

It, reinstalls Bluetooth?

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by dboreham on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:28PM (#16387801)

Now if they installed Minecraft that might be ok ;)

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