Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products (theinquirer.net)

Freshly Exhumed writes: Microsoft has told The Inquirer that it is aware of a bug which has been causing users' default programs to switch to the bundled Microsoft options. After deleting the update, a user discovered the next day that Windows had reinstalled it and reset the default settings again. InfoWorld gives some real world scenarios: "If you have Chrome as the default browser on your Windows 10 computer, you'd better check to make sure Microsoft didn't hijack it last week and set Edge as your new default. The same goes for any PDF viewer: A forced cumulative update also reset PDF viewing to Edge on many PCs. Do you use IrfanView, ACDSee, Photoshop Express, or Photoshop Elements? The default photo app may have been reset to -- you guessed it -- the Windows Photos app. Music? Video? Microsoft may have swooped down and changed you over to Microsoft Party apps, all in the course of last week's forced cumulative update KB3135173."

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Re: Accidentally

[bhpaddock]

Apple has never said that they won't charge a subscription for iOS. That doesn't make it any less absurd to say they will.

And you know what? Microsoft *has* said that there will not be a subscription for Windows 10. Multiple times. They've said *very clearly* that the device will receive updates so long as it's supported (meets the minimum system requirements, and subject to usual OEM support commitments for drivers and such). It is a *lie*, nothing less, to tell someone that MS is ever going to charge a subscription for them to keep using Windows 10 on their device.

You obviously have no idea what the word "spyware" means. By no accepted definition does anything in Windows 10 contain even a trace of it. Indeed, Microsoft is incredibly conservative (probably too much so) in personal information it collects and uses. Compare this to say, Android or Chrome OS, and it's laughable to suggest that Windows is "spying" on you.

Re: Accidentally

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

I play GAMES on it. that's all. I don't give a shit about various metrics or whatever. Unless I want to stay in the gaming dark ages, I run Windows 10 on my gaming box. What else am I going to run, Linux?

Your paranoia makes you look like a tin foil wearing, thermite believing, 9/11 conspiracy believing, LUNATIC.

It's not like it locks those choices down. Switch it back to Chrome or whatever. Takes all of 5 seconds.

Do you complain when mommy doesn't cut the crust off your PB&J too?