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0 pointsreitanqild9y ago0 comments

Sad to say, but yes, also on my professional edition I think. (A "recommended apps" ad in the start menu.)

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pizzachef29y ago

You can turn those off.

cm21879y ago

Or you can have no appetite to play whack-a-mole with microsoft's privacy settings and refuse to upgrade.

morganvachon9y ago

> whack-a-mole with microsoft's privacy settings

Indeed, their ever-changing "Get Windows 10" dialog is appalling. It's like a real life version of Cat Facts[1], or those stupid Best Buy emails I started getting after I bought a memory card from them and made absolutely sure I wasn't sharing my email address or signing up for anything. Hitting the "unsubscribe" link in the email resulted in more frequent spam from them, rather than actually unsubbing me.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/rsQ93.png

TrevorJ9y ago

Why should I have to spend any of my time on that shit instead of doing the work I have to do? I'm not a set of eyeballs for MS to sell. That shit might fly on Facebook or other free services, but the OS is a productivity enabler and that is all. The minute it actively tries to get in the way of my productivity in an effort to turn me into a product, I'm done with it.

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