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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

@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!

@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).

@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

@nta @elejia @mcc Those are both separate licenses. Pro N will activate with a Pro license (also, both need extra configuration to not get promotional content, while Pro N is like that by default).

@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