Sorry, Microsoft. I made my choice. And I have already decided against your recommendation. In fact, I have learned to never trust your recommendations.
You will not take no for an answer, so you can come back later as often as you like. And every time you do that, you lose more respect that is so difficult to build.
The tragedy is that I was once a happy Bing user until you destroyed it with MSN content. You are now busy destroying Windows with the same MSN b/s. And you are force-feeding Copilot with everything you make.
You successfully trained me to never trust you.
Do you also see a point approaching where you want to turn away from Windows because of these annoyances? Or are the alternatives to Windows too unbearable for you?
I am always evaluating my alternatives. And so far, they do not measure up. Apple has long stopped caring about anything but its bottom line, Google is not to be trusted and Linux on the desktop is a cruel joke.
I totally understand that people come to different conclusions. For me, Microsoft is the easiest enemy to defeat.
I am therefore sticking with Apple on my private Setup. It works good as “program starter” / timemachine is unbeaten beside of having everything in the cloud anyhow, and I do not always feel as a target for new experiments. I have to deal enough with windows in my work as CIO and CISO 😉
I am pretty sure I never set Edge to “sync” my settings (I never do or turn it off if forced on me) and recently found it had set the checkmark all by itself. I don’t even use Edge that often.
You can’t turn off Sync anymore, you can only uncheck certain aspects separately (bookmarks, passwords, tab history etc.).
One option, “Feature use” has a toggle switch that will stay “on” no matter what. As to what info is actually transferred now is anyone’s guess.
Absolute unwanted trash behaviour.
I was trained in that distrust, twenty years ago this month, for reasons I need not rehearse again here.
A new issue is that a small academic group I work with, are now being told that their 365 NonProfit accounts are being unilaterally discontinued this autumn – they will have to move from 365, or start paying a great amount more for their licences.
Clearly, a legitimate business decision by a giant company, made somewhere in the ether, but no actual explanation is offered let alone an apology. I’m expecting the same will now happen for other charitable outfits I am looking after.