Today I want to tell the community about the steps I’ve taken as an individual customer to become less dependent on large tech companies. Windows: I only log into Windows using a local user account. OneDrive is blocked in Group Policy and uninstalled. The same goes for the Windows Store. I currently only have one…

Hi all, Here’s a place for any questions you have this week. Thanks! Paul

Microsoft, what’s going on? I’ve disabled the Copilot button in outlook.com settings at least 10 times now. Every time I open Outlook, Copilot is enabled again. It doesn’t matter whether I use Firefox or Chrome. Is this how you’re going to make Copilot less annoying, Microsoft? Can’t you just respect your customers’ preferences? Do you…

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/04/xbox-is-having-very-big-discussions-about-exclusivity-says-reporter “There are very very very big discussions about the exclusivity stuff going on right now. They do recognise the value – it’s just about what kind of company you want to be, at the end of the day. Do you want to be an ecosystem company first, or do you want to be a…

“Microsoft just laid out a new way to keep enterprise software growing in an AI-heavy workplace: charge AI agents for software seats the same way companies pay for human employees. The old SaaS model was easy, a company buys 1 license for 1 worker, so revenue rises when headcount rises. AI agents threaten that model…

“Both its midrange and flagship Surface lines are now significantly more expensive than they were just a few weeks ago, with the flagship Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 now starting at $500 more than they launched at in 2024.” “The Surface Pro 12-inch, which was previously Microsoft’s cheapest modern Surface PC at $799, now starts at $1,049. The…