noiseredux wrote:Yes, this was the first time Windows 10 made me feel a little icky. I was like "hey, where did Speccy go???" But I mean, you can just re-install it. But still. Why did that happen?
While I don't especially love the idea either, I do think it's potentially something that's actually good for the majority of users. There's a lot of stuff out there that's borderline malware, that a lot of the scanners will even pick up ("Potentially Unwanted Programs"), whose presence tends to be annoying at best.
I can completely understand the notion to have Windows automatically clean out stuff like that. Likely, any of us that have spent time cleaning the crapware off of family member's computers and the like do. Similarly, programs/versions that are known bad.
It's the simply going and doing it with no warning or option not to that's a problem. There should just be a basic, easy to find control panel for it, even if the default behavior is the same.
'course, it might also be there to make shifting to the Windows Store more logical. Encourage people to get verified apps from there, versus grabbing .exes.
OS X already does that, effectively - it's easy to change the setting governing it, but it'll block a lot of randomly downloaded programs by default.