Pedantic. Every Windows OEM is doing this and M$ seems to encourage it to make their windows devices cheaper.

Microsoft Surface machines don’t have this. Microsoft doesn’t like it at all.

If Microsoft doesn’t like it, they could prevent OEM from doing it through licensing.

They don’t. It’s been like that for decades.

>they could prevent OEM from doing it through licensing

Preventing installation of third-party software. This will certainly go well in Europe.

They could've had e.g. "Windows Fresh" campaign/symbol for vendors to use if it was an unmodified Windows. But there's likely no incentive. It cuts into OEM profit, and maybe it would reduce support calls?

Ultimately though, most people don't care. And the ones that do simply reinstall Windows on a new PC, because it's quicker that way.

Unlikely, seems like it would be a huge antitrust issue. Google can't dictate what OEMs install either.

Microsoft has every fresh windows 10/11 install automatically download garbage like candy crush. They don’t like it at all?

Microsoft hates McAfee and the other malware packages, because they know full well how badly they screw up all sorts of internal workings of Windows. Much of Microsoft's own tech support workload is caused by shitty antiviruses. The reason Microsoft made Security Essentials / Defender was to deal with that, to displace the others and reduce Microsoft's own support workload.

Candy Crush isn't anything like that, it doesn't screw up OS functionality. (Well, subjectively, you might consider ads and upsells in the UI broken.)

That's not what pedantic means

GP didn't say they did.

They said they bought a computer with windows not a Microsoft PC like a surface.

Yes that one and a bunch of others are coming from ASUS