Questions for 9/22?

<p><a href="#181004"><em>In reply to Sprtfan:</em></a></p><p>I've tried hiding in the Store. It doesn't prevent reinstalling.</p><p>About the only thing which would is using a local account rather than a MSFT account. That's how I have my main PC running 1703 set up, but I use a MSFT account with my Insider VM.</p><p>FWIW, I got advice on Reddit: take ownership of C:\Program Files\Windows Apps, give your own account full access to it, then delete the subdirectories for the problem apps. I did that earlier today, but I just installed the latest Insider build, so everything is back where I don't want it. Ah, well, I knew I needed to write a batch file for this.</p><p>Candy Crush et al are going to give new meaning the MSFT Signature PCs. In my case, Windows 8.1 is looking better and better all the time.</p>

<p><a href="#180908"><em>In reply to Patrick3D:</em></a></p><p>Most white collar workers need WordPad with better spelling and grammar checking than Word provides. Most don't need anything close to Excel, and the large Excel models used by many people should have become true development projects a decade ago. Finally, the world would be a much better, saner, more peaceful place if 95% of the people who use PowerPoint (and use it badly) stopped using it. Rough rule-of-thump: as many people are good at creating presentations as are good at public speaking.</p><p>Google's products really are good enough for most Office workers for most of what they do. Office is gross overkill which has become as huge as it is and still growing because MSFT needs to give customers some reason to spend US$100 annually on it.</p>