With the amount of money that MS makes, it is hard to imagine they do this for revenue. Are they trying to be "useful"?
At very least, since many of us have enough to concentrate on as Developers, the install should either ask you "do you want loads of crap to read from the news?" or it should be a simple global switch.
I think probably as a big company, Microsoft have lost the Bill Gates character who could decide everything in a holistic way and not random groups of people with their own objectives slinging mud at the OS to see what sticks and annoying everyone in the process. How much has been tried and dropped in the last 10-15 years of Windows?
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