Here's Microsoft's astroturf network spinning their increasingly anti-competitive, anti-user store practices as "protecting users".https://twitter.com/mspoweruser/status/835815401753751552 …
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It's a option. That simple fact makes every single one of your "arguments" inherently invalid.
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