The first ads in the Windows 11 Start menu will look familiar.

The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest apps from the Microsoft Store.

  • Crafter72@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Ah finally, Windows and Cheap chinese android phone have something in common. Ads in their built in bloatwares apps.

  • tourist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    who would click that

    who clicks ads in general

    have you ever clicked an ad (on purpose)

    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I have never, not once in my life, clicked on an internet or electronic ad. Even for things I’m ostensibly interested in. Jury’s out on just how much manically SEO optimized retail web sites on Google count as “ads,” I guess. But other than that: Zilch.

      But someone somewhere must be clicking on them because billions of dollars are spent every year pushing the fucking things.

      • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Some marketers believe it doesn’t matter if someone clicks as brand recognition has its own value. On the other hand, who hasn’t heard of Tiktok by now?

        • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I’ve seen Proton services mentioned so much here and in communities such as selfhosted that I went to their website today to check what they offer.

          • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Proton is a linuxtool for game compatibility.nothing to do with the web company.

            Which supposedly offers security but falls all over themselves sucking the dick of any security service willing to notice them.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    i’ve been testing not using windows ever again. since 2004.

    it’s great.

  • Bell@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Microsoft is the school bully who keeps shoving you and saying: “what are you gonna do about it?”

  • cerement@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    “Microsoft has been experimenting with ads inside Windows for more than 10 years.”

    *sigh*

  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Well, of course. I mean it’s not like you paid for a Microsoft Windows license when you bought your computer, so obviously they have to advertise to financially support it. If you’re getting something for free, you’re the product.

    …

    …

    …

    Wait, I’m being told that when people buy computers with Windows installed, they are, in fact, paying for a Windows license, too.

    So this is actually Microsoft trying to turn products they’ve already sold into continuous revenue streams at the cost of usability and customer happiness.

    In other news, apropos of nothing in particular, Steam on Linux is working really well these days, with lots of AAA titles running just fine via Proton. Make of that what you will…

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Kernel level anticheat for a few games is the only real speedbump I’m aware of, and it’s only on a couple of game franchises like CoD I think. I would love it a ton of people made the switch and it hurt those games’ companies revenue noticeably enough that they look for a way to moderate cheating without just lazily requiring Windows in order to play online.

      Linux is finally convenient enough to realistically steal swaths of customers from Microsoft, and it’s at the same time that Windows 11 is pissing a ton of people off. We’re in for some strange times.

      • AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        There are way too many games out there for me to care anymore. Once i build my new PC, its Linux only. If it doesn’t run on Linux, I don’t need to play it.