Microsoft installing third-party apps on clean Windows 10 installs

Again? Do they not know how bad it makes them look. I dont want your third party apps. I dont mind a placeholder which if I click on it installs the app, but actually putting third party code on my machine is a no no.

These days more or less the only bad press Microsoft gets* are the presence of those pre-installed apps. It is unbelievable that the great marketing department of the Microsoft cooperation continues to do this. Removing those apps will more or less make all bad press go away.

* only other frequent complains I see is the windows 10 logging (of course) , but that is not the subject of the article.

I wonder just how much money they make off the back of these annoying installs.

I would think apps like candy crush must be paying Microsoft in the 10s of millions to so directly affect the UX of their primary money maker.

Not only after installs, but also with bigger updates.

It's always a reminder that with Windows 10, the user is never in control of the system.