For a short time in college, I went to a school in an unsavory neighborhood. And there was this one panhandler who was very aggressive; he’d follow you around asking for change, and if you gave him change, it only encouraged him to stalk you more. That guy was far less annoying than Microsoft Windows, which keeps trying to extract money from me by hawking its XBox Game Pass subscription service over and over again.
Today, for what seems like the hundredth time in the last few weeks, I got a notification on my laptop asking me to sign up for XBox Game Pass Ultimate, a $19.99/month subscription that gives you access to a game library and several other features. You might think XBox Game Pass Ultimate is a good deal, or you might not be a gamer at all. What matters is that I don’t want it and Microsoft keeps throwing it in my face like a rotting key lime pie.
