Microsoft replaces Chat with “Microsoft Teams – Free”

I know I keep harping on the declining quality and enshittification of Windows, but Microsoft just makes it so easy. In the changelog for the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds is this gem:

Beginning to roll out with this build, Chat is nowMicrosoft Teams - Free. Microsoft Teams - Free is pinned by default to the taskbar and can be unpinned like other apps on the taskbar.

So you buy a new Windows machine or reinstall Windows, and the taskbar will have the beautiful and not at all thirsty name Microsoft Teams - Free".

I know a good ad agency for Microsoft.