What's really wild is that people put up with this shit.
For me the straw that broke the camel's back was finding out that system32 is owned by the installer user and I'd have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make any changes there.
And here people are like: "Sure, show me ads in the OS I bought." While the apologists go: "You can disable those in the registry."
I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO!

The moment I have to wrestle the OS for control over my computer it ceases to be useful and becomes a burden.

Balmer and Gates worked their way up, especially Gates from basically nothing. They understood mostly what their customers wanted. But Nadella only understands short term revenue. Not the longtime customers.

Microsoft was always bad. But now that they've saturated the market, they need shadier and shittier gimmicks to keep justifying their inflated stock price.

Now they're trying to sell businesses on AI as a full replacement for worker headcount. It's a bald faced lie. But with enough money spent on marketing and gimmicks like this...