Im sorry, but this is excessive. edit: Moar FUD!

[mv2devnull]

"Blank the screen and put the monitor to power saving mode" is the only acceptable procedure. If MS want's Windows to be NSFW, then ...

(am I the only one who hates that word "apps"? Ugh)

No, you are not. They are applications, programs, commands.
No matter how trendy it is to use less characters, one should not ignore the fact that Unix-users have been doing more with even less typing already decades.

 

[balloonshark]

I am glad you like it. You can turn it off if you don't, just like you can turn off just about anything in 10 you don't care for (live tiles, included apps, connects for said apps, etc).

Until the forced updates "accidentally" reverses your change or stock holders demand even more profits so they make ads not optional.

Give an inch and they will take a mile.

Honestly this platform is a dream come true for MS and for advertisers and I'm sure we'll see more of this, they are testing the waters. It's the way everything is going now, collect info on people, sell it to advertisers and/or send targeted ads. I imagine they will keep the ability to turn it off though, as there may potentially be legal issues if they don't, I'm not really sure. But doing this makes perfect business sense. You don't spend all that time and effort on a meta data collection system and not turn it into extra revenue.

What I could see them do actually is have a free version with ads you can't turn off, and have a paid version with no ads. Basically like a lot of phone apps.

I'm not sure why they don't have free and paid versions. I would pay to have a Windows OS that worked for me and not for MS.

 

[mv2devnull]

I'm not sure why they don't have free and paid versions. I would pay to have a Windows OS that worked for me and not for MS.

There is no free version. You have already paid for it. The upgrade may not require additional payments, but it is upgrading something that you have paid for.