Makes me so glad I moved to Linux. Windows has just gotten worse and worse.
A few years ago:
Me: Why can’t I remove Edge?
IT Elitist: Because you have cheap peasant Home edition. They don’t pull this crap on Pro and Business editions.
Oh, they learn all right: “hey, we can pull so much bullshit off and they still pay us. Let’s do more next time”
Yesterday I found that my C drive was almost completely full and that was causing issues, digging into it I would that somehow a bug in One drives logging had generated almost 30 GB of logs, and the funny part is I have OneDrive disabled on my laptop. Tech has become such a toxic shithole field I wish I picked a different career
Stop using Windows
I want to but I don’t have enough external storage to back my data before wiping off windows and doing a clean Linux install, need to buy some hard drives first, hoping this AI scam hasn’t inflated the prices on those as well
Your data is living on borrowed time as it is if you don’t have it backed up already.
Two is one and one is none.
It did this on Windows 10 as well, I don’t know why this is all of a sudden some kind of surprise.
“learns” isn’t the right word, they know you don’t want it, like it, or need it. They don’t care a proper statement would be “microsoft never cares”
There has got to be a lawsuit against this shit.
There was a massive lawsuit for simply including IE in the install as default, and this is 100 times worse than that.
Nowadays, all you have to do to get your antitrust lawsuits conveniently forgotten is agree to lock down your company’s OS and share your data with the US government, like Google.
always the EU.
They’ve certainly improved things for people globally with their rulings.
Dropped Microsoft a long time ago. Loving every second of it.
Windows-free since 2014 in my case! Hated Windows 8’s user experience enough that I decided KDE was a better windows than windows and never looked back.
In 2026 Plasma 6 is genuinely in the conversation for the best graphical environment for the desktop platform in general, partly because it’s very good and partly because Apple and Microsoft have let standards slip a lot in my view.
Make a script that checks for it and removes it? Linux has its pains but it doesn’t have these pains.
almost 20 years ago I wrote a service that did this because of a hijacker. After I cleaned the system I extended it to stop all the MS bullshit that just wouldn’t stop running.
I make golden images for Windows at work. Everything Microsoft annoys/pissed me off.
I make golden showers out of windows at work. We are not the same!
Me too. Such a pain in the ass.
What’s your capture/deployment tool?
Just say Fuck Microslop at this point, plenty of beginner distros for Linux nowadays. Sucks for company employees that force it though. Hey CEOs I have money saving advice, Linux is free! You can even not go bankrupt to claude! lmfao.
Not true. You still very much have contracts with those companies be it RHEL or Ubuntu. It’s less don’t get me wrong, but not free. Like your small local shop could get away with it, but once you have regulatory oversight, things change.
Fuck Google, FUCK
Fuck Capitalism, FUCK
It isn’t in charge of what windows is, Microsoft is. If you don’t like the product use a different product.
Theyvemoved on to 11. You should either still be on 10 or on Linux.
If you are still using Windows 11, for enterprise, and things like this surprise you… you are an idiot, and are bad at your job.
Or, perhaps some sysadmins are swamped with trying to keep the lights on and they don’t have the bandwidth to read Microsoft’s news and prepare.
Oh my bad i forgot to add masochist to my list
