You seem to be ignoring the social implications of said secret configuration. Do you have a wife? ;)

A few years back my wife wanted to turn our house into spyware by putting this throughout the house. I strongly objected, so later that year, "Santa" brought our family of bunch of these devices.

It only takes one family member...

- Ads on Prime Video
- Next day deliveries that usually don't show up the next day
- Increasingly difficult to find anything on Amazon (Prime or not) besides knock-off junk

It's really not that difficult to figure out why.

But since you outsourced this work, I can't say I feel bad for you.

...before targeted ads are smashed into the middle of all AI responses. Corporate greed almost guarantees it.

Same. Subscriptions to use seat warmers and the like is ludicrous and outrageous. But, just like Amazon playing ads in Prime Video, they know we're entirely powerless to stop it. Welcome to the era where companies view the purchasers of their products as the enemy.

Google doing what Google does best...at least this time they're up front about it only being free for a year.

and users will be forced onto the "new" Outlook, which is so bad it shouldn't even be considered software in any real sense of the word. In the end, the consumer loses and M$ wins...just like they like it.

Speaking of the Win11 taskbar, by default it's also taller than the Win10 taskbar and (shocker!) there's no way to make it smaller like there was in Win10. This is code that the anti-customer fools at MS would've had to manually TAKE OUT so that we get a purposely crappier product.

Because as we all know, multi-hour wait times and bomb threats clearly only affect those who lean left, especially since none of them vote via absentee ballot (BTW this is sarcasm, since you probably couldn't tell). Dang, rsilvergun, that echo chamber you live in gets louder every day for you, doesn't it? Do you honestly believe any of the nonsense you spout here or do you just troll because you're bored?

Because if they had published it, everyone involved in the report would immediately be labeled all sorts of disparaging words ending in "-ist" and "-phobe" regardless of how sound their logic was. Nonsense like that was why the orange one got elected.

What fortune 50 org do you work for? I'm curious because I want to add it to my "never apply here" list.

I don't believe this, but using the phrase "product for the real customers - the giant corporations paying MS for ad space, and the U.S. government - " instead of "consumer" made the post clunky :)

For nefarious reasons we, as the consumer, will never be privy to, MS is going to roll this out no matter what...customer be damned as usual.

Do you understand that I couldn't care less about what you call? You seem to know a creepily large amount about what I do and don't do, especially since you have no idea who I am. Or were you just looking to start a flame war?