Despite Outrage From Users, Microsoft Continues To Install Bloatware Applications Onto Every Windows 10 PC (windowscentral.com)

Before Windows 10, a clean install of Windows only included the bare essentials a user would need to get started using their PC. With Windows 10, a clean install stays that way for about two minutes, because the second you hit the desktop, the Microsoft Store immediately starts trying to download third-party apps and games. Users have long complained about it, but it turns out Microsoft never put paid to it. Windows Central writes: And these apps keep trying to install themselves even after you cancel the downloads. There are six such apps, which is six too many. These apps are often random, but right now they include things like Candy Crush, Spotify, and Disney Magic Kingdoms. You should not see any of these apps on a fresh install of Windows 10, yet they are there every single time. There are policies you can set that disable these apps from automatically installing, but that's not the point. On a fresh, untouched, clean install of Windows 10, these apps will download themselves onto your PC. Even if you cancel the installation of these apps before they manage to complete the download, they will retry at a later date, without you even noticing. The only way I've found that gets rid of them permanently is to let them install initially, without canceling the download, and then uninstall the apps from the Start menu. If you cancel the initial download of the bloatware apps before they complete their first install, the Microsoft Store will just attempt to redownload them later and will keep doing so until that initial install is complete. This is not a good user experience, Microsoft.

Comments

Re:Anyone else read "bloat" ware

[rickb928]

No.

Substantially normal people do not, in fact, see 'Trump' in everything.

Just the trolls, the disaffected Leftists, and of course you, who clearly forgot to post Anonymous.

Re:First sentence

[rickb928]

Wait, USB drivers were not bloatware. They just didn't work.

There's a difference.

I do it old school

[Anonymous Coward]

I play solitaire on my Windows laptop. No internet required.

A 17” laptop makes a nice card table once you close the lid, but you need to use small cards.

Re:it turns out Microsoft never put paid to it

[knorthern knight]

"Put paid to X" is an obscure idiom that means to end/destroy X, in this case, ending the practice of downloading bloatware. The writer was being fancy. They really should "eschew obfuscation".

Re:Anyone else read "bloat" ware

[Anonymous Coward]

Trump Derangement Syndrome is real!