> The Solitaire & etc. games are NOT free: They force you to watch ads, unless you pay > for A SUBSCRIPTION to them. They are now a paid service.
That's not true for Solitaire at least. All the standard games (Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, etc.) are free. There's some "daily content" feature that requires you to see one ad each day or pay a subscription fee. If you don't click that button you don't see any ads.
The new Minesweeper games is total shit in terms of performance. Brings pretty much any machine to a crawl and sucks through battery on a tablet. Although that's not new in Windows 10, it's already like that in Windows 8.