Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Why does Microsoft even allow trial installations of all of these sorts of things? It’s cut-and-dried user-hostile behaviour, as are bundled installers as a class. Microsoft has the power to kill these pieces of software. I wish they would.



How do you determine that a piece of installed software is a trial version, so you can police it based on that attribute ?


The sort of trial installations we’re talking about are ones ones that are bundled with other software or preinstalled on a new computer. Microsoft should be forbidding both.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: