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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."
It seems that accidentally is another English word that is reversing its meaning.
Never attribute to malice etc etc, but this isn't the first time Microsoft has pulled this sort of crap, and the fact that they still haven't put safeguards in place to prevent these "bugs" is telling.
> as a Win10 user
As a Windows 10 user, you deserve every drop of this.
I know it sucks you can't use Linux, or OS X, or BSD, for some selection of applications (probably work related- for many others its games) that you just can't get anywhere else. But that's Microsoft's whole strategy! This is the endgame for vendor lock-in.
Basically, Microsoft has said "deal with our bullshit or gtfo". Right now you kinda have other options- you can run 8.1 and be reasonably early in its support cycle, with its unfortunate UI. You can run 7 and be in the middle of its support cycle, and its probably the ideal Windows for most users who can't escape. But everyone knows those two won't be ok forever. You have to manually admin your 7 or 8.X box or you'll get telemetry pushed in (you probably have to tear it out already- they pushed the KBs live like last March and they didn't start sending data until summer), you'll have to be careful to avoid the Windows 10 "upgrade", etc.
But at the end of the day, you paid for this, asked for this, and enabled this- and this is what you get. Microsoft will probably at some point have a version or update or optional whatever that gives you a functional Windows 10 or 11 or who cares, and you and everyone else will take the bait on at least ONE box, thus assuring that the lock in will never, ever end, and we'll be right back here except worse.
It is crap, but this endgame has been predicted and known for over a decade, right?
Right, because no one would *ever* need to run software for their job or to deal in some way with other humans where that software runs only on Windows.
STFU troll. People in the real world have to get shit done, and your chiding them is part of the problem.
People keep saying MS is changing for the better, but this is the exact kind of shit that earned them so much enmity in the first place.
> I give them money for a Windows license they give me a decent OS
I mean, this is exactly why everyone is so hot about this. They changed from offering an OS to offering a spyware mess. If any of these posts gets modded up, you can expect some ACs to come in and say "but Android does this too!". Now, it doesn't, but even if it sucked raw anus with a straw, it's not a reason for Windows to wonder "how long a straw do I need"- but wait for it, those dual class Apologist / Shills will be here shortly.
The thing is, Microsoft changing models to something shitty was INEVITABLE. That's the core problem. Microsoft has been forced in court to NOT do many things- you didn't have a rational agreement with Microsoft, you had the government pointing metaphorical guns at them and demanding they behave in a barely civilized fashion. Then you gave them money and were ok with the results. That's you supporting a version of the company that requires constant legal expenditure to ensure that they don't just flip out and destroy everything.
The funniest part is that the paid version (Pro) available to individuals is a hot mess of spyware and total shit. Only Enterprise even has the ability to be controlled, and there's evidence that neutering it still takes an external firewall. The idea that corporations get privacy and you don't is scary as fuck.
As a Windows 10 user, you deserve every drop of this. I know it sucks you can't use Linux, or OS X, or BSD, for some selection of applications
Blame the victim. Right.
I need Windows 10 because I support code that is used by people who use Windows 10. I cannot change what they do, and I like getting a paycheck, so I use Windows 10.
I appreciate that you think I deserve whatever happens because of that, but your opinion doesn't put food on my table, and it's pretty arrogant and just ridiculous.
Right now you kinda have other options- you can run 8.1 and be reasonably early in its support cycle,
Thanks for telling me what I can run. Isn't that the same kind of thing that Microsoft is doing with their changes to default programs (they are NOT "apps")? And tell me, how does paying Microsoft for an 8.1 upgrade help me support people who are running 10? Are you going to pay for my 8.1 upgrade?
you'll have to be careful to avoid the Windows 10 "upgrade", etc.
I didn't "have to be careful" to avoid the upgrade. All it took was deleting gwx.exe and everything else in that directory.
But at the end of the day, you paid for this, asked for this,
You are an ignorant, arrogant jerk, and that is putting it kindly.