mccI just this second drew the line in my head from "Microsoft is one of the companies who is convinced ChatGPT is a good thing and is telling its shareholders it's going to try to shove this brand of 'AI' into everything it can" and "Microsoft owns my phone keyboard, since they bought SwiftKey" and, uh… shit, maybe I should audition AnySoftKeyboard sooner rather than later
At almost the exact same time they rolled out this update, Microsoft deleted the public support forums. The public uservoice/feedback/feature request thing. They appear to have just removed it completely from the support site and old links to it 404. What an interesting coincidence.
Yeah LOL look at this. They removed the public forums in such an incredible hurry that if you just log into the SwiftKey website, there's still a link to the nonexistent forums at the bottom. They must have done this in an *incredible* hurry. I actually was thinking along the lines of "interesting coincidence" but now I actually believe it is not a coincidence and they really did do this just to prevent people discussing welding Bing and "AI" into the FUCKING KEYBOARD
Scott Hain@mcc it's all over the newer windows flights as well. I've been leaving all the feedback to at least let us opt out in some form but I'm not holding my breath. Registry hacks for windows it is!
Jernej Simončič �@elejia @mcc I'm hoping Windows Pro N or Pro Education will leave it out like they do with the rest of the crap (hint: if you had Pro activated on a computer, Pro N will activate without a key; you need to install Media Feature Pack afterwards, otherwise a bunch of features don't work, but the auto-installing crapps will not reappear).
Norma/nta@jernej__s @elejia @mcc ive been mentioning pro for workstations/enterprise as relatively immune to promotional targeting but i do wonder when some stuff will accidentally make it there too
@jernej__s @elejia @mcc huh, is Pro N missing these intentionally or as a side effect of 'no media foundation makes them not work'?
also, does the media feature pack actually migrate whenever there's a feature update these days? this used to be a hassle
also, does the media feature pack actually migrate whenever there's a feature update these days? this used to be a hassle
@nta @elejia @mcc No idea why Pro N is missing those – the Store works.
Media Feature Pack is kept over feature upgrades as long as you're upgrading from a version where MFP is installed from Optional Features (though I've had MFP missing after upgrading 10 to 11 a few times, although in those cases manual install also failed and I had to run DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth first).
One problem with Pro N is that even if you install Media Feature Pack, a few things still don't work (eg. Augmented Reality).
I recently came upon a tablet with Windows Pro Education license, which seems to be the same as Pro, except there's no auto-installing crap like in Pro N (but media support is present). Still need to test if Pro Edu will activate without a key if Pro was activated on the same machine.
pivotman319 🦊 
@nta @elejia @jernej__s @mcc these days, the Media Foundation Pack is being delivered via Windows Update as an FoD internally named Microsoft-Windows-Media-Features-Package
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3" manifestVersion="1.0" description="Installs media apps and enables Windows Media technologies." displayName="Media Feature Pack" copyright="Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved" supportInformation="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=777777">
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-Media-Features-Package" version="10.0.25398.1" processorArchitecture="amd64" language="neutral" buildType="release" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />