Monday 19 October 2020

Microsoft simply power restarted my Windows PC again to introduce more undesirable applications


I backed away from my PC for supper, partially through composing a story for The Verge. At the point when I got back, I was unable to accept my eyes.

Windows 10 had restarted my PC without authorization once more — to introduce one more constrained OS update onto my strong state drive.

The craziest part: When my machine got done with rebooting, it currently contained the specific thing I'd been expounding on before I was discourteously interfered. Microsoft had introduced spontaneous, undesirable web application forms of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook onto my PC.

Alright, it's not as awful as when my whole PC screen got taken over by an undesirable duplicate of Microsoft Edge. That was genuinely shocking.

No, this time Microsoft is simply sneaking undesirable web applications onto my PC — and utilizing my Windows 10 Start Menu as free publicizing space. Did I notice that symbols for Microsoft Office applications have mystically showed up in my Start Menu, despite the fact that I've not even once introduced Office on this PC?

These aren't sans full duplicates of Office, incidentally. They're only alternate routes to the web form you could as of now access in any internet browser of your decision, which twofold as ads to pay for an all the more completely included duplicate. 

A screenshot of the web apps that Microsoft force-installed on my PC.

Since they're web applications, dislike they occupy any room on my PC, and I don't generally mind them in my Start Menu. They're among the most un-hostile bloatware I've seen, and I never truly take a gander toward the Start Menu at any rate — my taskbar and search bar have for quite some time been sufficient for me.

In any case, they're the most recent confirmation that Microsoft doesn't regard your responsibility for own PC, the most recent case of Microsoft introducing anything it loves in a Windows update up to and including bloatware, and the most recent case of Microsoft thinking more about the main concern than whether a couple of individuals may lose their work when Windows unexpectedly closes down their PC. Fortunately, I didn't lose any work today, however a companion of mine as of late did:

Microsoft assumes our PCs are free publicizing space, a spot where it can childishly advance its different items — despite the fact that they were told entirely during the '90s that in any event, packaging an internet browser was not OK. Presently, they're packaging a program you can't uninstall, and a lot of PWA web applications that dispatch in that equivalent program. (Indeed, they fire up Edge regardless of whether you've set an alternate program as default.) 



As I've contended beforehand, choices like this subvert the one great contention Microsoft really has for required updates — that they give significant security fixes that keep PCs (yours and others) safe. That is a harder contention when the most noticeable contrast after another update is an endeavor to get more cash-flow!