[ShorsHammer]

In the time it took to write this comment you could have unpinned all those things from your start menu and never see them again, they aren't installed.

Most people customise a new computer in a myriad of ways, how is the start menu any different? Of course it is sleazy marketing dreamt up in a management meeting, but you chose to accept the defaults here.

It's like knowingly buying a bike with a flat tire then complaining to everyone it doesn't work instead of simply pumping up the tire.

[slededit]

New things get added over time. Cortana suddenly starts "reminding" you of all the neat things she can do. Windows tells you your computer is at risk because you aren't sending all your data to One Drive.

Sure you can disable some of them but its like whack-a-mole and your an update away from a new nuisance. The speculative app installing (which does get actually installed) requires a registry change to disable - not exactly user friendly.

I paid extra for a "professional" operating system. Why am I getting candy crush?