Brand new, out of the box. It's been sitting here at 100% for 5 minutes.
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Lmao the absolute gall of them
That is absolutely lunacy that they did that
I don't know where or what version of Windows this is but I administer a shit ton of windows devices and have never seen this. Wondering if this is a home edition or some version of OEM.
Interestingly enough, it didn’t happen on my work PC. My work PC has had other shenanigans tho (weather and news apps adding themselves to my task bar)
I don’t remember if the arrow happened to me while I was on 10, I have since upgraded to 11, but I do have the pro version. It was a few years ago
Looking into it now, they seem to have a separate pro license for “workstations” marketed at businesses, that may have something to do with it?
The Enterprise SKU I don't believe has that added.
We have to rely on the prep version mostly, which has the shenanigans. Fortunately, you can turn those things off after the fact.
What we are fighting with now is trying to deploy an image without the advertised apps, but since they are provided by the CDN, which cannot be disabled (yet).
i feel like the meeting went like that:
exec: “why is no one using it?”
dev: “shit browser, same tech as chrome”
exec: “ok? how can we increase usage ffs?”
dev: “lol, dunno, giant white arrow pointing at the icon?”
exec: “ship it tomorrow “
Can you unpin Edge from the taskbar? That should get rid of the arrow. Or maybe the next windows update would bring it back.
Oh, yeah that was the solution lol. It’s more the fact that they took the liberty of pinning it there for me, and then drew the arrow over my screen. The sheer audacity of it all
You're right, it's absurd. They should be ashamed.