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Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Microsoft: how can we get even more money while enraging everyone?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The second Win 10 stops receiving security updates, it's Linux for me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can start the switch early to get used to it 😉

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've been dipping my toes into it over the years, I'm just not ready to make it my daily driver quite yet

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Aight time to try and learn Linux for the 10th time and see if someone without strong console knowledge can use one now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've been using it for a few months now and only rarely I used console and it was just to paste some commands for something. So yeah, I don't think that you really need to know howbto use console if you don't need to do anything that specifically needs it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Rarely is still too much for me.
If I do regular joe stuff, I don't want to be required to go into the terminal.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think that this betrays their plans: Windows will go "free with ads", with an ad-free version that is subscription only. That doesn't hurt their bottomline since the governments and companies of the western world will still go subscription in order to get support. The ones who don't have enough money for that (individuals, small countries/companies, small municipalities), they will go "free with ads". I mean, practically, Windows is free even right now. They have oem serial numbers that activate the OS for free, legally, to be reused. So why not make it profitable, it's their thinking. Also, on newer builds of Win11 you can't avoid logging in without an msn account.

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