Windows Latest previously reported that some Windows 11 PCs ship with malware built in that not even a clean install through the wrong region setting can avoid, and Microsoft told us at the time that they were aware of the behavior and looking into it. 3 years later, the company still hasn’t closed the door on OEMs using their own update pipeline to push ads.
This is supposed to be literally the selling point of a gated app store – they app store owner makes sure the apps available do not do anything negative to the user. If it fails this basic function, then why put up with it?
What? No it’s not. The selling point of the app store is the owner of the app store gets to rent seek. Getting to control the app store is the selling point of developing an ‘OS’ for free.
It’s probably worth pointing out that Windows has very much not been developed for free. Up until Windows 8 and still today in some cases Windows license cost in the neighborhood of $250, and there are parts of the OS that have not changed since Windows 95, the format hard drive dialogue for instance. That’s before we even start mentioning how much they took from IBM to develop Windows secretly while helping IBM develop OS/2.
The App Store itself was the product of a creation of a unified code base between Xbox and Windows Phone and Windows and Windows RT, Then they threw that out with the bathwater because fuck Windows Phone for some reason.
Windows was sold that’s true and as you say the app store came with the attempt at a mobile / tablet OS.
Windows is well into the extract phase of the product. Microsoft missed the mobile boat and fewer and fewer people are buying laptops. Grandma gets by on a tablet etc. so things are just going to get worse and worse for Windows users going forward.
hp’s been pulling this same stunt for years to install their “telemetry” and other bullshit on desktops and laptops, even after a ‘clean’ install to a blank drive using microsoft’s installer
This is supposed to be literally the selling point of a gated app store – they app store owner makes sure the apps available do not do anything negative to the user. If it fails this basic function, then why put up with it?
What? No it’s not. The selling point of the app store is the owner of the app store gets to rent seek. Getting to control the app store is the selling point of developing an ‘OS’ for free.
You as the user are just the product.
It’s probably worth pointing out that Windows has very much not been developed for free. Up until Windows 8 and still today in some cases Windows license cost in the neighborhood of $250, and there are parts of the OS that have not changed since Windows 95, the format hard drive dialogue for instance. That’s before we even start mentioning how much they took from IBM to develop Windows secretly while helping IBM develop OS/2.
The App Store itself was the product of a creation of a unified code base between Xbox and Windows Phone and Windows and Windows RT, Then they threw that out with the bathwater because fuck Windows Phone for some reason.
Windows was sold that’s true and as you say the app store came with the attempt at a mobile / tablet OS.
Windows is well into the extract phase of the product. Microsoft missed the mobile boat and fewer and fewer people are buying laptops. Grandma gets by on a tablet etc. so things are just going to get worse and worse for Windows users going forward.
hp’s been pulling this same stunt for years to install their “telemetry” and other bullshit on desktops and laptops, even after a ‘clean’ install to a blank drive using microsoft’s installer