I can't imagine the mind of the person at MS who decided that making Solitaire pay-to-play was a good idea.
It's fascinating how decisions like this get made, how products like Win 8 and 10 get out the door, and how MS seems to think it can fix the terrible design by downvoting critics on public forums and getting PR companies to write booster posts that are so ham-handed they have no persuasive power.
As a company, MS has a lot of really smart individuals doing really dumb things collectively. I'd be incredibly interested if MS could find its own Rodney Brooks to explain the business processes that make that happen.
Not a hater, btw. Office 365 and Azure both have their good points. But Windows and mobile seem like industry-changing disasters now, and from the outside it seems like the icebergs shouldn't have been that hard to miss.