I was going to write the same :) I’m pretty sure it is still true for the MS engineers as they most likely have a version of Windows (Enterprise?) that has none of that crap, so they never see it and doesn’t affect them.
It affects me too, but these decisions are all made at the management level. I’ve just formed a habit of uninstalling/disabling misfeatures as they appear.
The biggest benefit of Enterprise edition is that you’re allowed to disable things. But they usually enabled by default regardless.
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I was going to write the same :) I’m pretty sure it is still true for the MS engineers as they most likely have a version of Windows (Enterprise?) that has none of that crap, so they never see it and doesn’t affect them.
It affects me too, but these decisions are all made at the management level. I’ve just formed a habit of uninstalling/disabling misfeatures as they appear.
The biggest benefit of Enterprise edition is that you’re allowed to disable things. But they usually enabled by default regardless.
I thought the Unix sed command at the very end (“Edit2:”) of this Microsoft article was pretty funny.