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IDK, I think it is more to set a baseline experience expectation. (Similar to what Nexus and Pixel did for google)

A LOT of PC manufacturers bundle a lot of crappy software with their laptops. MS hardware is just windows.

Microsoft is guilty too. I was pretty surprised when I saw a launcher for Candy Crush on a new computer. Go ahead and feature it in the store, but it doesn't belong in the menu of a new computer.

Well, they're not guilty in the sense that that is the baseline Windows experience, disappointing as that fact is.

It's pretty shameful that it's pre-installed even if you are doing a fresh install of windows on a machine you put together

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