Microsoft has bought Activision-Blizzard

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Woke up this morning and Win11 decided I needed MS Teams to be running and put it in my startup. Um, no. WTF?

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Seems as though it was included in my updates yesterday too.

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weā€™re doomedā€¦

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This just popped up in my new feed this morning from Tomā€™s Hardware. Check it out if you are using this version of Windows.

Tested: Windows 11 Proā€™s On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%

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Most agree. W11 may be my last PC OS.

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Whatā€™s there to like about W11?

I donā€™t like having to click more to do things that used to take less clicks, donā€™t like having Edge browser forced down my throat, donā€™t like having to do reg edits for standard functionality QOL featuresā€¦Overall it is just a less friendly version of W10. And entirely annoying that WIn10 push notifications to upgrade canā€™t be stopped. Any new computer is going to come with W11 but I certainly wonā€™t be upgrading any existing WIn10 system at least until security updates stop in 2025.

This article sums it up pretty well. And not much has changed since it was published.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/this-is-why-so-many-people-hate-windows-11/ar-AA14lhAP

If this is what they do to WoW, have mercy on your souls.

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Edge is forced on you in Windows 10 too and if you uninstall it or even parts of it it will blue screen your system and reinstall itself on startup

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There are a couple things that annoy me but are fixable, otherwise Win11 is fine. Iā€™m more interested in performance anyway and it seems good to me (launches/shuts down faster, apps boot faster, etc.). I donā€™t miss the tiles in the Start menu lol

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Yeaā€¦I noticed this too, so I asked my technician how to handle this. He suggested I just leave it alone and install my preferred browser anyway, especially since my security setup uses a VPN, which works great. But I removed that pesky Edge off my menu bar and it never shows up.

However, I do have two different browsers I can use instead and both work just fine. One: my security VPN for banking and other sensitive activities, and Two: for general research browsing when Iā€™m using Chrome.

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this is incorrect. I donā€™t have edge. Some updates may reinstall it though. and its a complete bitch to uninstall.