It's not harassment. It's just there is some set of managers of various levels tasked with increasing the % of people using the online account in Windows. They have a metric, and they work towards it. There is no one in the company who can decide to not do this nagging - either a person doesn't have the authority, or it requires negotiating with too many owners, or this metric is very high-level, or it's the CEO who doesn't care about such low-level things because he uses the online account and doesn't see it. It's always like that in all modern corporations.
Exactly! It’s the personal responsibility / fault of a handful of specific people who cowardly hide behind the corporation.
I wonder if they would dare explain how they decide to add these adds to people’s OS in some new social setting.