And they keep slipping in little things here and there to almost MAKE you use their flippin cloud services AI and all the rest of that bullshit!
Not so long ago, we used to opt in or decide to subscribe to extra functionality. IF we wanted it.
Now? You almost have to fight your way out if it!
I tried deleting Microsoft Edge and OneDrive altogether - just to save me from having to disable these programs from automatically starting up, every time I rebooted my laptop. Then my Windows wouldn't work until the laptop had gone through all it's "undo changes" - and all the rest of that routine.
I was quite busy that day... 'Just as well I had another machine up and running at the time, so I could get on with some work!
Talking of which...