I feel like there are far too many IceAnimal forks that just vanish the month after they put out a release.

It might not be entirely true, but it just feels like that.

Most of the DVDs I've played can skip the previews with chapter selection, but daaang the blu-rays locked that up. Can't skip anything at all!

I thought those players only worked on special 3D TVs? I've never tried the feature because my TVs are always the cheap ones.

something that important I'd put into the login banner as well.

Yup, back when it transitioned to UWP. I don't know if they removed them because I immediately extracted the old version from a previous Windows and have been towing along that import baggage every setup since.

I can't recall a single computer I sold or had anyone buy having Word bundled with the computer, but Microsoft Works Word Processor was bundled everywhere, before they started doing the Office trial junk. I always ended up using WordPad in rtf format anyway because all the file format differences made moving docs so hard.

And yeah, ads in calc.exe, the death of WordPad, the bloating of Notepad... all pretty normal stuff now. There must be a mandate from the higher ups that anything untouched for x amount of days has to be removed or monetized.

Sometimes it's not so dramatic. I had one throwing a forever captcha and figured out it was because I set webp to disabled in about:config

The "we know better than you" attitude Microsoft has. They've very slowly removed more and more power user functionality. Almost every customization has to be hacked in with a group policy or registry edit now, or by outright replacing explorer.exe

Last I heard, Capcom was retroactively adding DRM to their games which could severely impact compatibility. I don't get why Mega Man 2 would need to be protected with spyware, but that's a big corp for you. So yeah, I'd say Capcom games might qualify.

Forgive my ignorance, but an apartment where the landlord is removed and people just pay building maintenance is... a condominium, no?

Last time I tried it let me create a local account, then about a week later I got called because Windows threw a full-screen blocker on boot saying a Microsoft account was required to continue with "I'll do it later" being greyed out. Oddly enough, ALT+F4 worked to close it and continue.

I wonder how many people still directly connect to the internet without a gateway. It seems sensational to say "INSTANTLY INFECTED" and then tiny print (in a way that nobody connects to the internet since 1999). But maybe I'm just ignorant to how large a market still use direct connection.