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Microsoft Allows Users To Remove Some System Applications in Windows 10 Insider Preview 14936 (ghacks.net)
Until now, Microsoft restricted users from deleting many of the system applications on Windows 10. But it is finally giving users that option in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview -- 14936. From an article on Ghacks:If you open the Mail and Calendar application for instance, you will notice that the uninstall button is active now. This means that you can remove the system app from the machine without having to resort to Powershell or third-party programs to do so. Users who are on the stable version of Windows 10 cannot uninstall system apps using the apps & features menu currently. It seems likely that Microsoft will introduce the feature with the next feature update, codename Redstone 2, which will be out in 2017. Before you start jumping up and down in joy, note that some system applications cannot be removed. While you can uninstall Mail and Calendar, Calculator, Groove Music, Maps, and Weather, you cannot remove Alarm & Clock, Camera, Cortana, Messaging, and others.
When will debian let me remove systemd?
Windows use to let you change almost anything you wanted, customize most things.. didn't force you to use anything... now.. it seems like Microsoft is run by old Soviet dictators. So I still have my windows 7 machine, which I'll use until I can't find software that will run on it any more. I've also started using Ubuntu & Mint daily, to see which one I like more. So far it's a tie. But I will not go to Windows 10. They have lost a long time customer in me.
So, you're a very slow learner but at least you finally figured out what kind of company Microsoft is. You learned slowly because you have such a narrow view of what a giant red flag looks like. Customization was the only one you recognized, really? How about their long history of hostile business practices?
I came to your same realization in the late 1990s. Windows 98 was the "latest and greatest" from MS back then. You could customize it and there were plenty of little freeware or shareware utilities to help you do that. But by then I had seen too many asshole maneuvers from MS - they long ago exhausted my goodwill - and Linux was so interesting from a techie standpoint. I sure as hell didn't miss all the Windows crashes people dealt with back then. I still don't miss the malware and the constant battles to try and control your own machine. I really don't miss the creepy spying on users or the subscription model so many things are moving towards.
Software freedom really is a good thing. It gives the control freaks no leverage to use against you. Unlike vendor lock-in where they've got you by the balls and switching is painful. When I call you a "slow learner" I don't mean any insult, I mean to point out that some key warning signs had been there for years and years. Typically though, with most people, something has to bite you, personally, before you're willing to call a spade a spade. At least it happened at all. It's what needs to happen, at large scale, before companies like MS will ever respect their customers.