Microsoft no longer allows turning off app updates in the Microsoft Store
24 AdmiralAsshat 6 8/17/2025, 9:14:31 PM neowin.net ↗
Comments (6)
mrandish · 3h ago
Microsoft continues to enshittify Windows and it's accelerating. It's forcing me to seriously evaluate moving off Windows after three decades.
Fairburn · 5h ago
Simple. Dont use MS products.
Also, turn off win updates and block them. It is your machine, not thiers.
wkat4242 · 3h ago
It's really hard to block the auto updates too though. And yeah it should be up to the user.
rocketvole · 5h ago
While I am disappointing, I'm not exactly surprised. I'm willing to bet that this is in response to the Windows 10 Mail App, which was a lightweight metro app that Microsoft depreciated to try to push people to use it's new outlook app. People hated it, so they downloaded older versions and shut off app updates. Eventually, Microsoft did a server side switch that essentially broke functionality on the old app with outlook emails, although other providers work fine (for now).
wkat4242 · 3h ago
Yeah the new app isn't actually an app. It's just a web service. It's terrible. You have to hand off all your emails to the Microsoft cloud just to use it.
pjmlp · 2h ago
Just like the folks that are into Chromebooks over here, which are cool because they run Linux?