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>Who in their right mind would find it acceptable if their program/operating system decided to automatically download Purble Place.

>People didn't choose to install that, it was "pushed" upon them

So we're on the same page? Or are you being sarcastic? I'm not sure what your stance is at this point.

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My point is this is how Windows has always been, it's not something getting worse over time. Acting like suddenly now they're including Candy Crush is the line that makes it into malware is laughable to me and overly hyperbolic. If it's malware today because it had a shortcut to Candy Crush it was malware in the 1980s with Reversi. Essentially Windows has always been malware if having a pack-in game distractionware is the standard.

Did you also find Windows XP to be malware? Windows 95? Windows 7?

Is Chrome malware because it's got a hidden game Easter egg in it as well?

Is some Linux distro that defaults to having cowsay malware?

Is there a line windows could cross that would make you change your mind? And stop calling me a hyperbolic ignorant hypocrite for drawing the line at candy crush and ads.

Sure, if you want to bring up something truly user hostile Microsoft has done/been doing recently one could point to when an update moved everyone's user profiles to their OneDrive folder, an update they later pulled for being a pretty poor decision. That was a pretty boneheaded and user hostile decision. Making Hearts and Solitaire and what not an ad-supported micro transaction game when it was free was a pretty crappy move. It's not entirely out of character though.

There's lots of things Microsoft has started doing in the past few years which can be considered user hostile in certain lights. Having a pack-in game isn't something they only recently started doing though, so yeah I'll continue to consider people making a massive deal about a Candy Crush shortcut as being hyperbolic and ignorant. Acting like distractionware being bundled into Windows as a new thing (or even advertisements for their services or even third party services) is an ignorant position to take.

>Acting like distractionware being bundled into Windows as a new thing

Now I understand where our miscommunication is coming from. I just want to say that I never held that belief, I never stated that. The various games, third parties, ads and various other tactics fall in line with what's been said to be microsofts overarching theme of extend, embrace, extinguish. You are far more knowledgeable about the history and slippery slope windows is going down. So in that respect, I would agree that I am ignorant. I take no issue to that. Though in my ignorance, I reserve my right to let, an evidently minor issue, be the last drop in the bucket to call windows not just an operating system but also a tool for malicious intent towards the user to extract monetary gain beyond the provision of an abstraction layer for developing the programs we use today.

The only bright side to windows is that we're finally getting a truly dystopian cyberpunk machine that will stop at nothing to control their users while the the common folk are left with no options and no awareness of what those Ghz processors are actually used for. That is true ignorance and I'd hope you can see we're on the same team.

>It's not entirely out of characte

check my username

> includes a shortcut for one of the most popular games at the time

> a tool for malicious intent

> truly dystopian cyberpunk machine

> claims to not be hyperbolic

Yeah sure friendo.

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