Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable (arstechnica.com)

With the latest Windows 10 build 18262, Microsoft is allowing you to remove apps such as Mail, Calendar, Movies & TV, and the Groove Music app. Ars Technica reports: The ability to remove these apps doesn't really mean much in terms of disk space or convenience, as none of them are very big. The move may be of more interest to corporate deployments; an organization that has standardized on Outlook, for example, might want to remove the Mail and Calendar apps to reduce user confusion.

Elsewhere, the new build also updates Task Manager; an optional column in the Details tab will show which applications handle mixed DPI systems and what API level they use for that support. Microsoft is also planning, but has not yet enabled, a new Windows troubleshooter. This will examine diagnostic data and automatically perform any fixes or reconfigurations that appear to be necessary.

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Re:Gimme the old interface!

[nctritech]

As well as the ability to disable forced automatic updates entirely. Most of Windows 10's stability and data loss problems stem from automatic updates. Let the user choose where the "threshold" between security and stability should fall.

But Linux

[Tough Love]

Just pointing out, there is no such thing as a non-removable app in Linux. There might be packages that other packages depend on, sure, but in general you can configure Linux whatever way you want, with whatever applications you want. And you can find out what anything running on your machine is actually doing.