Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps

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I stepped distant from my computer for dinner, halfway through writing a story for The Verge.. When I got back, I couldn't co-opt my eyes.

Windows 10 had restarted my computer after permission yet repeatedly -- to install yet flipside forced OS amend onto my solid winger drive.

The craziest part: When my workings first-string rebooting, it now contained the existent affair I'd been writing about vanward I was rudely interrupted. Microsoft had installed unsolicited, unwanted web app versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel as well as Outlook onto my computer.

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Seriously, the story you're sake right now started off as a picture column changeful this happening to other people.

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OK, it's not as bad as when my errorless computer screen got taken over by an unwanted reissue of Microsoft Edge. That was truly egregious.

No, this time Microsoft is only two-timing unwanted web apps onto my PC -- as well as utilizing my. Windows 10 Start Menu as opted agitprop space. Did I mention that icons for Microsoft Transferal apps have magically appeared in my Start Menu, orderly whereas I've never once installed Transferal on this computer?

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My new Start Menu contains shortcuts to Microsoft apps I've never installed

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These aren't full opted copies of Office, by the way. They're just shortcuts to the web adaptation you could once chute in any web browser of your choice, which double-barreled as advertisements to pay for a increasingly genuinely featured copy.

Because they're web apps, it's not like they take up any sway on my computer, as well as I don't really prehension them in my Start Menu. They're among the least offensive bloatware I've seen, as well as I never really squint at the Start Menu anyway -- my taskbar as well as chase bar have long been fertile for me.

These web apps are proximate an annoyance, nearabout think changeful the fitter picture

Nonetheless, they're the latest proof that Microsoft doesn't sake your buying of your own PC, the latest example of Microsoft installing anything it marker in a Windows amend up to as well as including bloatware, as well as the latest example of Microsoft caring increasingly changeful the googol line than whether a few persons might lose their work when Windows suddenly shuts down their PC. Luckily, I didn't lose any work today, nearabout a friend of nunatak reiteratively did:

How is this still happening to people, @Microsoft? #

-- Sean Hollister (@StarFire2258) October 4, 2020

Microsoft seems to think our computers are opted agitprop space, a quarters area it can selfishly promote its other wares -- orderly whereas they were told somewhere in the '90s that orderly bundling a web browser was not OK. Now, they're bundling a browser you can't uninstall, as well as a set of PWA web apps that launch in that aforementioned browser. (Yes, they flame up Sidle orderly if you've set a contrasted browser as default.)

As I've argued previously, decisions like this undermine the one good bickering Microsoft admittedly has for stenosis updates -- that they recondition important trusteeship patches that keep computers (yours as well as others) safe. That's a harder bickering when the picked visible discongruity post-obit a new amend is an entrada to make increasingly money!

Like ZDNet war-horse Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley notes, this isn't just an guarantee happening to some Windows Insiders. I'm not slaving up with the Windows Insider prospects on this PC. The visitor hasn't deigned to respond to Foley's requests for annotate yet, nearabout let's see if that changes abutting week.

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