It looks like Windows 11 is getting a new stock app, at least in some regions. Microsoft is now publicly testing a Windows 11 build where the PC Manager app comes bundled with the OS.

PC optimizers are not a new concept, and they have been around for quite a while. Nowadays, many consider them unnecessary, but having an official program made by Microsoft that is capable of (allegedly) speeding up your PC may sound quite appealing.

However, Microsoft’s PC Manager has already raised quite a few eyebrows when customers caught it recommending some questionable optimizing techniques, injecting affiliate links, and shamelessly claiming your PC needs repair if Bing is not set as the default search engine. Yikes.

  • @KethalEnglish
    58•1 month ago

    So does it disable telemetry, remove Edge, remove all the crap from the start menu, and stop presenting Web results in start menu search?

    • @[email protected]English
      18•1 month ago

      “reduce ads and pop-up interruptions,”

      But not theirs, only others where they don’t get paid for it.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 month ago

      To remove all the crap from your OS, first install the crap, then install more crap to remove the crap that you installed. Except it doesn’t actually remove it, it just becomes part of the crap mass that users never wanted in the first place.