I don’t know where or what version of Windows this is but I administer a shit ton of windows devices and have never seen this. Wondering if this is a home edition or some version of OEM.
Interestingly enough, it didn’t happen on my work PC. My work PC has had other shenanigans tho (weather and news apps adding themselves to my task bar)
I don’t remember if the arrow happened to me while I was on 10, I have since upgraded to 11, but I do have the pro version. It was a few years ago
Looking into it now, they seem to have a separate pro license for “workstations” marketed at businesses, that may have something to do with it?
The Enterprise SKU I don’t believe has that added.
We have to rely on the prep version mostly, which has the shenanigans. Fortunately, you can turn those things off after the fact.
What we are fighting with now is trying to deploy an image without the advertised apps, but since they are provided by the CDN, which cannot be disabled (yet).
Oh, yeah that was the solution lol. It’s more the fact that they took the liberty of pinning it there for me, and then drew the arrow over my screen. The sheer audacity of it all
Or “let’s finish setting up your PC” full screen on a 4 year old system. Then you click through just to find the only options are 1) share more data with Microsoft, or 2) make Edge your default browser. The day I find a decent note taking tablet running Linux, windows is dead to me.
I have tried installing Linux on my Surface, unfortunately I haven’t found a configuration that works for me yet. There are just a lot of small features that didn’t work like the touch screen keyboard, the ability to use my finger to scroll while using the stylus to write, and more. I can probably get it there with enough work, but for now I’m taking the lazy way out and running Windows. Still better than IOS though, yuck.
My other favorite is when they add Edge to my desktop periodically
Oh, and the one time they put a fucking arrow on my wallpaper pointing at Edge. That’s what finally convinced me to make it my default browser
what how?
Lmao the absolute gall of them
That is absolutely lunacy that they did that
I don’t know where or what version of Windows this is but I administer a shit ton of windows devices and have never seen this. Wondering if this is a home edition or some version of OEM.
Interestingly enough, it didn’t happen on my work PC. My work PC has had other shenanigans tho (weather and news apps adding themselves to my task bar)
I don’t remember if the arrow happened to me while I was on 10, I have since upgraded to 11, but I do have the pro version. It was a few years ago
Looking into it now, they seem to have a separate pro license for “workstations” marketed at businesses, that may have something to do with it?
The Enterprise SKU I don’t believe has that added.
We have to rely on the prep version mostly, which has the shenanigans. Fortunately, you can turn those things off after the fact.
What we are fighting with now is trying to deploy an image without the advertised apps, but since they are provided by the CDN, which cannot be disabled (yet).
i feel like the meeting went like that:
exec: “why is no one using it?”
dev: “shit browser, same tech as chrome”
exec: “ok? how can we increase usage ffs?”
dev: “lol, dunno, giant white arrow pointing at the icon?”
exec: “ship it tomorrow “
Can you unpin Edge from the taskbar? That should get rid of the arrow. Or maybe the next windows update would bring it back.
Oh, yeah that was the solution lol. It’s more the fact that they took the liberty of pinning it there for me, and then drew the arrow over my screen. The sheer audacity of it all
You’re right, it’s absurd. They should be ashamed.
Or “let’s finish setting up your PC” full screen on a 4 year old system. Then you click through just to find the only options are 1) share more data with Microsoft, or 2) make Edge your default browser. The day I find a decent note taking tablet running Linux, windows is dead to me.
Why not install it yourself??
I have tried installing Linux on my Surface, unfortunately I haven’t found a configuration that works for me yet. There are just a lot of small features that didn’t work like the touch screen keyboard, the ability to use my finger to scroll while using the stylus to write, and more. I can probably get it there with enough work, but for now I’m taking the lazy way out and running Windows. Still better than IOS though, yuck.
Ive never seen that… lol
That is weird