14 DAY TRIAL // Bloatware has been around for so long that it’s nearly impossible to find a product that doesn’t come with third-party apps or add-ons, and Windows is no exception to this rule.
In addition to some pre-installed Windows 10 apps, Microsoft is also bundling others belonging to third parties, including Candy Crush Saga, a game that has already proved to be very successful on mobile platforms.
But on Windows 10, users don’t seem to be very excited about the idea of having their PCs attacked by bloatware, and in a post in the Feedback app, they ask Microsoft not necessarily to remove unwanted apps, but to let them do that manually.
Nearly 1,000 votes
The suggestion was posted approximately 2 weeks ago and already has nearly one thousand votes and is currently the trending item in the Feedback app.
“Don’t be like Android and iOS! Let us uninstall ANY modern app! The bloatware you bundle with Windows 10 is growing and growing, and we can’t get rid of any of it! This is ridiculous. Microsoft, the last thing you need is for a user to feel like he or she does not have full control over their own computer,” the suggestion reads, while adding that users should be allowed to remove apps from the Windows Store library and thus have them deleted from the account.
Windows 10 was released on July 29, 2015, and is available free of charge for one year for users of Windows 7 and 8.1. While the upgrade can be performed at no cost only in the 12 months after launch (until July 29, 2016), the operating system will be free for the entire lifetime of your device, so you continue receiving updates and security patches beyond this date.
At this point, the new OS is installed on nearly 10 percent of desktop PCs across the world, and Microsoft expects these figures to grow significantly this year as the time for the free upgrade is running out.