That’s illegal.
Edit: It’s illegal to lock features of a desktop OS to specific software.
As you can read in line 35,863 of the Terms of Service you agreed to:
Fuck you you fucking piece of shit. We own you, all of your data, your computer, and your first born child. Just fucking try and sue us. Were worth a trillion fucking dollars, what are you worth? $150,000 of student loan debt for that degree you don’t even use? When we say jump you jump. When we say uninstall the software, you uninstall that fucking software. Capiche?
- Microsoft© Windows® Terms of Service
No but it absolutely should be, because people wouldn’t allow a person standing in their living room, writing down everything they do on their computers. But since it’s not visible to the user when it happens, they don’t care. But it’s actually disgusting behavior, we just got used to not being able to stop it.
Why should we contribute to these companies getting rich from selling our private data??