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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:35:45 -0500
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rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:43:14 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> On 1/10/2025 12:37 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>> <https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-
> install-new-outlook-on-windows-10-pcs-in-february/>
>>> 
>>> Microsoft will force install the new Outlook email client on Windows 10
>>> systems starting with next month's security update.
>> 
>> Another nothing burger.
>> 
>> Apparently you never noticed the deluge of apps a typical Linux distro
>> forces on you.
>
> You can pick and choose during the installation. I'll admit I go for the 
> default and get stuff like LibreOffice that I may never use on my personal 
> machines but I'm lazy. 

I like DFS using the word "deluge", when the disk space of this "deluge"
is far smaller than getting the same kinds of apps on Windows.

Big offenders: Microsoft Office and Visual Studio. Windows itself.

-- 
* joeyh cvs commits his home directory. Aaaaaa
<drow> eeeeeeek
<drow> joeyh: That is simply evil.  Period.