[makeitdouble]

The crucial part: these business leaders won't see the ugly consumer side.

Enterprise windows is completely different, in that most of the crap we complain about will either be disable at the MDM level, or from the start depending on the license. A CEO being issued a windows laptop isn't barraged with ads, nor do they care if their account is local or not. It will "just work".

[bigmattystyles]

I don’t know, I work for a massive (benevolent of course) corporation and it’s still pushy with Lock Screen ads, copilot, etc… and it definitely doesn’t just work. Maybe for the CEO it does though…

[makeitdouble]

It might depend on how much your IT departements cares about customizing your setups. The efforts described in TFA for instance don't cover auto install scripts which are still free to create whatever local account is needed, provided it's done through the fleet management mechanisms.

Much of the scripts to "debloat" windows also rely on MDM entry points and overriding user preferences with higher privilege.

[mlrtime]

I remember in the early win7 days when I built computers there were many powertools to debloat the install, I had fun running them.

Doesn't this exist today for W11 that makes most of the complaints mute? Or is MS getting better at the cat/mouse game?

[makeitdouble]

They still exist, like Win11Debloat.

As you point out it's still a cat and mouse game but I assume they work OK. I tend to go the painful way and do most of it myself following instructions, as I'm not comfortable having these tools run as admin on a system. It's not that bad either.

[alsetmusic]

> Lock Screen ads, copilot

We have a mandate on-high to block this crap at the MDM level. It's more about your company than the biz world overall, I think.