I'm surprised they didn't put ads in the blank area of the taskbar.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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Is Microsoft so in debt that they need to sell ad space in every pixal of their products? What is going on.
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Any recommendation I didn't ask for is an ad, and that's a hill I'm willing to die on.
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Recommendations is just an euphemism marketing joke. Every serious journalist would call them what they are, ads.
As soon as they announced ads were gonna be in the start menu, i noped out of windows. I only use it for work which doesn't bother me because im not doing anything private on my work pc.
I switched to Fedora 40 with KDE and never looked back. My only real gripe is with making music. Getting the VSTs to work and setting up yabridge is kind of a headache that i still need to do 😮💨 aside from that, Linux has been my daily driver for quite a while now and im happy i switched even though im still learning.
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I'm so happy that I will never have to deal with this on my home computers. At work we can at least disable it all via policies. But my god has Microsoft lost its way. What happened to making professional business products?
I already run Linux on my laptop. The one thing keeping me from getting rid of Windows on my big machine is Forza games. Motorsport does not seem to work at all with proton/wine (yet)
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I’m just riding win10 until I finally nab a new gpu and 5700x3d. Htpc and media server are running mint, I think I’ll change the server distro next time I upgrade the hardware though
Install any popular Linux distro. They are all so much better than any proprietary OS. And if you are running relatively common hardware, everything will just work.
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This is not gonna stop until the consumer puts their money where there mouths are and stops using Windows until Microsoft back peddles. Money is all a company understands so that is where you need to hit them if you want them to listen. But as a group the consumer has a very weak constitution when it comes to having to do something that is good for them in the long term but causes them short term inconvenience. A lot of parallels to the modern corporate world in that.
Isn't something like half of Windows purchases from businesses though?
And I feel like the younger crowd isn't even buying PCs. Just tablets and phones.
So, nothing will change, because businesses don't care if Jerry from accounting has to look at a bud light advertisement as a recovering alcoholic.
And PCs might fade away like typewritters did.
But don't worry. Printers will still exist wirelessly. They'll still have a finicky driver that breaks if you even look at the printer, and it'll still use ink that costs as much as a mortgage on a subscription model.
Because fuck trees!
Could it be that consumers are putting money where there mouths are and this is just Microsoft desperately trying to increase their margins since their business isn't growing anymore?
I mean the more people move away, the more likely it is Microsoft would milk the ones who can't.
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How many more of these will it take, until people start looking for alternatives
Until it affects businesses it won’t change. Once they start to add them to Office, it’s all over.
I think it is already happening gradually. SteamDeck has single handedly opened the eyes of so many already. M1 Macs did that for macOS as well.
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I would say a “recommendation” is an ad when an accountant is involved instead of (or in addition to) a curator. Even if it’s Microsoft recommending Microsoft’s products, department budgets probably track that internally (though I’m sure the official accounting is done in a way that shifts profits to a tax haven).
Yeah, basically as soon as money changes hands, a recommendation becomes an ad.