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Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled Bloatware (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] Intralexical@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Snarky anthropomorphization primarily serving clickbait and liability-limiting, I think, pretty clearly.

Really, the headline could just be "Microsoft To Allow Removing Preinstalled Apps", or "Bloatware Apps will be Removable After Windows 11 Update", or something like that. But the way they worded it lets them both sound more sarcastic to people who are pissed off by the scummy practice, and at the same time also sound plausibly less direct in calling Microsoft out.