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They’re just going to do a classical boil-the-frog operation:

  • Step 1: Make it opt-in and present it as the new cool thing.
  • Step 2: Make it opt-out, and if the users opts out, show a scary warning about how the cool thing won’t work anymore.
  • Step 3: Silently opt-in, and hide the opt-out option deeply in a settings menu.
  • Step 4: Silently opt-in, remove opt-out, but it still works with a registry hack. Microsoft apologists will still thinks it’s cool because “just use this simple registry hack bro”.
  • Step 5: Remove opt-out alltogether, and silently opt-in everyone who had previously opted out.
  • Step 6: Enjoy their boiled frog!
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You forgot Step 0: make an announcement so overtly egregious that when you walk it back, the compromise sounds reasonable

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There’s no reasonable form of this.

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No but there sure is a much more unreasonable form of this.

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The “two steps forward, one step back” maneuver. Classic.

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7 points

“You can still install it with a local account!”

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Just disconnect your network cable, press this magic key combination and type this undocumented command: “MSBLAOIGKSDF /ACZSF”

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They already had this feature once in Windows 10, and you don’t remember because it doesn’t work like that.

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