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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by blibble on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:28PM (#16387803)
> FWIW, the new Microsoft games are actively maintained with new content and features on a regular basis, whereas the classic Minesweeper/Solitaire EXEs (which you can easily copy onto a Windows 10 PC) weren't modified beyond bugfixes for somewhere around a decade and a half.

it's not a good thing as they're using the opportunity to infest these programs with ads

Solitaire on Windows now has ads, and don't get me started on the new calculator

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by ocdtrekkie on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:20PM (#16388297)
...What do you have against the new calculator? I use it really heavily and am a fan. I have to do some stuff with hex, so I drop into some of the additional modes from time to time even. There's no ads in the new calculator for sure.

Adding ads is definitely an irritation, but my point is, they are funding a supported, maintained product with Solitaire. It's more than just Solitaire now. It currently has five different games, not including features like daily challenges and the like. It gets updated reasonably regularly.

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