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>>tonyst+(OP)
Two days ago a friend found Spotify installed on hers Windows 10 laptop, pushed by Microsoft, even on the taskbar. That's insane. Windows 10 will be my last Windows ever.

>>albert+L7
I highly doubt that Microsoft did that and more likely her little brother or somebody else who used the laptop and didn't told her did it.

>>unnoui+69
Not this time, she lives alone, there's no one else who could have done it and she's not tech savvy, not at all, I bought and configured that laptop my self for her.

>>albert+cv
"... she's not tech savvy..." - well, I guess we found the culprit. You did let her use it with full admin rights, didn't you?

I recommend go to local policy and enable full audit for everything. When this happens in the future you'll have a clear picture of who/when/what.

>>unnoui+nF
She barely knows how to open outlook, let alone go to ms store and install a sw. Please don't try to defend MS, not this time. I found plenty of casual games installed in my work win10 PC. It's MS.

>>albert+wO1
According to duck duck go, multiple people complained about Spotify auto installing on their windows box two days ago.

I completely stopped using windows in the 8.1 days (forced telemetry was the last straw). I can't imagine dealing with the sorts of gaslighting you are experiencing.

Happily, a combination of steam proton and dosbox run dos / windows games on my Linux desktop more smoothly than native ever did, and that was my last missing use case.