Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes

Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by criddell on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:11PM (#16708776)

I would love for them to fork Windows into consumer and commercial editions.

I used to uninstall the things I want gone, but I've given up. Contacts, maps, money, music, mail, news, weather, and the other bloatware just kept coming back. You can't uninstall stuff like Cortana at all, AFAIK.

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Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:43PM (#16709869)

Main reason you currently can't remove Cortana, is because Cortana if you leave the additional features disabled, is just a rebrand of Windows Search, a relatively core OS function. Earlier versions of Windows 10 used to differentiate the two, current versions do not.

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Re:Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes by criddell on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:54PM (#16709995)

I don't think I need Windows Search either. I shut off the indexing service because it was always using 100% of my disk in the performance monitor.

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