If I see your company or app advertised on windows 11, you can be sure I will be actively avoiding said company/ App. Even if I need the services advertised, I will be looking for an alternative just because.
I’m not sure these ads are even paid for by the developers of the apps that show up. It looks like this is an ad for the Microsoft Store in general, as Microsoft gets a percentage of any sales.
I have the same policy for pop up ads.
How did the default attitude toward the user get so hostile? The amount of toggles you need to set just to have a smooth experience with minimal tracking is insane. The people in here defending it by the fact it can be disabled are missing the point: we shouldn't have to deal with it in the first place.
You shouldn't. I haven't. Microsoft is a plague and a choice.
You're not wrong, but there's a larger issue here: the fact that there's an alternative does not make what Microsoft is doing okay. This shit ought to be prohibited by consumer protection law.
It got here because it’s super profitable, and that’s all the C-suite cares about, and they’re the ones calling the shots at the end of the day.
I also think that engineering ethics has, in general, been strongly de-emphasized, and true holistic ownership of technical products is now usually held by business and finance types instead of engineers, with all the negative consequences that that entails.
Didn't I pay for the OS?
Sure, we've had first payment..
I think it's safe to say that over 99% of custom built pc doesn't run on proper windows license
Where did you come up with that figure? I have two PCs and they have two separate licenses. One is custom built and the other was prebuilt.
Even if that's true, custome pcs are a tiny fraction of client computing, oem desktops and especially laptops completely own client computing, most people only ever get a laptop
I paid for 10.
Which is why I never enabled TPM on my motherboard. I didn't pay for 11. I do not want 11.
I paid for 7 and upgraded it to 10. I may go to 12 later on (Windows alternates between solid and awful, so 12 may be fine) but it's also quite likely I'll wind up moving to a Linux distro as my primary and keeping Win10 as a fallback. No way in hell am I touching 11.
I didn't pay for the OS.
Me, on my Ubuntu machine: 🧐🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂
Your comment is hilarious because Ubuntu placed ads for Amazon in the equivalent of start menu way before Microsoft even had that idea. Ubuntu now displays ads for Ubuntu Pro (or Premium, whatever the name is) in the terminal. Ubuntu is the Windows wannabe of the Linux world.
Thankfully I stay away from the terminal whenever possible and I started using this thing after the ads from Amazon were no longer a thing xd
In other words, you hide your head in the sand, like many Windows users.
Lol, or we just use the computer and don't cry about stupid bullshit
Except that it's not stupid bullshit. It's like saying "just suck it up and accept the fact that your TV will serve you ads and track you."
Yup and that's exactly what people do lol.
Unfortunately, yes.
yeah you get ads in the terminal instead
It's not an ad. Nobody is being paid to put that there. It's a promotion.
they're advertising their paid product, don't really see a difference semantically
It is very different.
If by very different you mean exactly the same
Why does the OS have to recommend you apps?
Just in case you didn't have enough apps installed from the factory.
You know, I get if they want to do this to Home editions, but why in the world would they do this to all editions? At the very least, this should never apply to domain-joined computers.
Money
Seems short sighted to annoy the people who pay you the most money already.
What are they going to switch to?
Most orgs will just put up with it because of inertia: existing software that has to work, employee's having to learn new skills, "sysadmins" who only know Microsoft, etc.
... "sysadmins" who only know Microsoft, ...
HEY
I finally activated windows last week through the cmd... Didn't pay a cent
How?
I won't post a specific website but if you search it you'll find tons of guides on how to do it.
Why won't you post it?
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Win11: less functionality, more ads
And what's with the weasel words like "recommended"? Just call them "sponsored" or "ads", like they really are.
Windows 11 (and how much I like my experience with the Steam deck, if I'm being honest) has me seriously reconsidering switching to Linux for my gaming desktop
I've only been playing games on Linux for the past year and it's been a pretty smooth experience. Go for it!
I'm considering it even more seriously right now. I had my eyes set on Fedora, but apparently I shouldn't, because they are ditching official support for X11, and I need it because I have an Nvidia GPU ? I was also looking at pop OS, but I also saw people recommending against Ubuntu on Lemmy, I don't remember why though. Do you have a recommendation ?
Fundamental error - as usual with Windows news.
These 'Start Menu Ads' aren't rolling out to everyone, I have zero 'Start Menu Ads'. In fact, I have Zero Ads in my operating system.
Why must Windows news always assume that everyone runs Windows? Isn't this the main bug with all operating systems?
Enterprise editions exist, just saying...
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