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Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled Bloatware (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] 326 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Tldr: Remote desktop, Cortana, camera, people app are all getting uninstall buttons.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What about FUCKING TEAMS

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children) 
    PS> get-appxpackage *teams* | remove-appxpackage
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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I love PowerShell

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I understand that your comment makes sense in context, but wash your mouth out with soap for speaking such vile heresy

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    PowerShell is one of the best things MS has done. Turning a rich, OO environment into a CLI was smart.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Why remote desktop? I can understand the rest. But who uninstalls default apps and doesn't use remote desktop?

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Very few people use remote desktop.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    Very few people bother removing all the default apps in the first place.

    The type of high caliber nerd to care about a pre installed app that sits dormant and uses a few MB of storage probably already uses remote desktop often enough they'd want to keep it.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Remote Desktop App vs Remote Desktop Connection.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Remote Desktop is dead. Azure killed it. TeamViewer is the replacement (and yes you have to pay for it) or you pick another third party vendor for your RDP needs.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    People still use team viewer?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Scammers notably of course, but it's Microsoft's sanctioned solution to them removing RDP capability with Azure. I'm super interested in finding out what cut they get or how much TeamViewer payed for that.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What the hell is wrong with remote desktop and the camera app?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe someday they'll discover checkboxes and use them to not have to install these apps in the first place.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It sure took them a while, but they seem to finally allow folks to personalize their experience. I'm not going to complain about it, though – this is definitely a good change.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Not far enough. It'd be lovely if I could scale Windows down to almost 7 gigs or so (what windows 10 is, probably should be lower) But the thing is Windows in general is just a bloated piece of crap that continues to grow.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, so of the five apps they will "let" you uninstall now, one makes little sense to have in the consumer edition (remote desktop - which is effectively enabled in Pro only) and one is getting deprecated (Cortana - bye bye!).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    The remote desktop they are talking about is the client app used to connect to remote systems.

    The remote desktop feature that's limited to Pro is the ability for the system to receive remote connections.

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