Still MS should make a lean windows OS that just works base version, and can then add random crap to whomever wants it.
I support this message.
But they never will. The entirety of the tech world these days believes that they know better than users what users want, and if they only force their unwanted shovel-ware on the users, the users will eventually learn to love it, and crave more, and eventually even pay a monthly subscription fee for it.
It's baked into the business model by pretty much every last one of them. They have zero incentive to not force their unwanted crap on you.
We are now seeing this with AI making its way into every **** product under the sun.
They all want to you get used to and learn to love
their AI implementation so that they can be the kings of AI in the future, but that will never happen if you never try it, so they force it on you. They don't care that you don't want it.
This whole industry is broken. The whole theory of a capitalist economy is that businesses are supposed to fight over us, and beat each-other at better producing what we want, resulting in better more desirable products at lower prices over time. Turns out that's not profitable enough, so instead they try filthy **** like finding niches they don't have to compete with anyone else in, so they can crank up the price, or making us the product instead of the customer.
The whole tech industry needs a reboot. We need to start from scratch (or at least from a snapshot of ~2007) so we can set it right.
