Candy Crush Saga will ship with Windows 10 whether you want it or not

Game developer King will bring Candy Crush Saga to Windows 10. It will join classic Windows games such as Solitaire, Minesweeper, FreeCell and Hearts. These games have been part of Windows installs for many years, and after a brief departure in Windows 8, are returning in the latest version. Although players have been able to play the addicting puzzle game for years on mobile devices and through Facebook, this is the first time it will be pre-installed on devices. In December, Candy Crush Saga was released for Windows Phone, allowing them to join in the addiction with their iOS and Android counterparts. Microsoft doesn’t plan to stop just at Candy Crush Saga – the Games section of Windows will also include other King titles in the future. “Candy Crush Saga will be automatically installed for customers that upgrade to or download Windows 10 during the launch! Over time, other popular and awesome King game titles will be available for Windows 10,” Microsoft said on their company’s blog. Some reporters have criticized Microsoft’s inclusion of the game in their software. “For anyone who doesn’t want to play Candy Crush Saga, this is bloatware plain and simple. Third-party bloatware. To have it included in clean installs of Windows 10 because of, what, a revenue-sharing deal? Disgusting. OEMs already stick enough garbage on computers without Microsoft aiding them at the operating system level,” said Hayden Dingman, games reporter at PCWorld. According to King Entertainment’s earnings presentation, the company is seeing 158 million daily active users on average, with around 550 million average monthly active users. The majority of them access the game through mobile devices. Windows 11 is the current version of Windows, and it’s one of the best Windows versions ever released. It draws on its predecessors, like Windows 10, but today it’s very much its own operating system, with a unique look, advanced features, and the most secure and stable platform for modern Windows application. If you’ve been holding out on upgrading, or aren’t running the latest version, we have everything you need to know about the most recent version of Windows 11. Microsoft will be allowing consumers to join its Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for the first time next year, and it announced the program pricing today in a blog post. The official end-of-service date for Windows 10 is October 14, 2025, but by paying $30 to join the ESU program, you can receive an extra year of security updates. This will allow you to continue safely using Windows 10 until around October 2026, a full two years from now. By the time support for Windows 10 ends, it will be almost exactly four years since Windows 11 launched and a decade since Windows 10 launched. It takes a lot of work to keep an operating system secure and running smoothly, which is why a company like Microsoft can’t just endlessly support every version of Windows it’s ever shipped. It would end up costing a lot more money than it made — and that’s not how businesses function. Microsoft has announced that it will ease up the aggressive add tactic to get Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 after receiving negative backlash from users, as Windows Latest reports. There is no official word on whether stopping the full-screen multipage popups is permanent, but a plan to “share a new timeline in the coming months” was mentioned. Windows 10 Home users saw these ads, but some Pro and Business users also saw them after rebooting their computers. Regardless of who saw them, the ads’ pause comes as the Windows 10 end-of-life date, October 14, 2025, approaches.