This means they can start enforcing options and turning things like telemetry back on with impunity. This is a sad state of affairs, when our devices’ operating systems become an increasingly hostile environment. Honestly, it’s time to start looking into switching to libre environments, before we are left with no alternatives.
While I am disappointing, I'm not exactly surprised. I'm willing to bet that this is in response to the Windows 10 Mail App, which was a lightweight metro app that Microsoft depreciated to try to push people to use it's new outlook app. People hated it, so they downloaded older versions and shut off app updates. Eventually, Microsoft did a server side switch that essentially broke functionality on the old app with outlook emails, although other providers work fine (for now).
Yeah the new app isn't actually an app. It's just a web service. It's terrible. You have to hand off all your emails to the Microsoft cloud just to use it.
No offense, but so long as that remains "evaluating moving off Windows", they don't give a shit.
The middle-managers making these decisions don't care how displeased the consumers are with the product; only that they continue consuming it (or in this case, using it)
Well, this most recent regression of functionality has caused me to finally uninstall and fully disable Microsoft Store. So at least the middle-managers of MS-Store will see that in their stats.
