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You got downvoted for the overly simplistic reduction. But many of the new "features" of modern Windows are exactly what we used to call "spyware" and "adware" in the 2000s: Barely useful tools, if at all, that tried their best to promote other tools from the manufacturer, tried to dark-pattern their way out of being uninstalled and for which we had to use specialized tools for their detection & removal.

With that era acting as hindsight, and specially taking into account the anti-trust suit they lost for bundling IE, the fact that Windows ships with such software now feels like very lazy satire.



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