[meristohm]

"Surely, you have one job and that is to deliver tech that works—not to waste users' time by giving them irrelevant copy to read which has no functional value."

Microsoft has been doing this for years, with its messages during Windows setup, along the lines of "sit back and relax while we work our magic" which is at best annoying.

[accrual]

95, 98, Me, and XP all at least provided screenshots of some new features in the release. 10 and later just have the fuzzy "getting things ready" flavor text.

[bombcar]

Those were informative and at least not boring and changed often enough to keep you interested and tell you that set up is still working.

[merb]

Tbf most os‘s including windows install extremely fast. It’s the shit show you need to do after the installation that is annoying. Even starting edge after you did the worlds slowest after installation wizard. You need to fucking await it’s fullscreen feature announcement until you can download another browser.

[smegger001]

I beleibe you can grab Firefox by FTP in the CMD or powershell at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ and never actually open edge or ie.

[aydyn]

At least Windows is giving that to you at a time when you cant be doing anything else. The nonsense mozilla gets up to is truly on another level.