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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I stopped using Windows in 2008 (juggling between a mixture of Linux and Mac OS). One of the reasons, is that at that time I thought Windows was legitimately a mess.

Over time, I thought it got a bit better when seeing it on friends's computers.

Due to laziness, Windows 11 got installed on my office computer (which I use 1% of my time) and I thought it was honestly pretty good (as in, I never thought about switching back, but it was fine to use it when necessary).

Now that they plug in ads, I'll certainly want to switch back /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I keep seeing headlines like this all the time. I'm over here like "This has already been a thing for years". Whenever I'd setup a win10 pc for someone, I'd have to clean the ads out of the start menu as part of the setup. So I ask again, how is this any different from the bullshit we're already dealing with?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It's like they want to go out of business

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Maybe this is why you can't have a toolbar on the taskbar, to force you into the start menu more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The wierd part is, if i think about my star menu usage in win10, there hardly is one. The important programs are on the task bar. The Startmenu isn't as much needed as used to be. Still sucks though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

i'm daily driving mint for a month now and i appreciate i did

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If Microsoft does that I'm wiping out my laptop and going back to Linux*

* only reason I moved away is I bought a new laptop to replace my 2010 Mac mini that ran LinuxMint, and the laptop came preloaded with Windows 11 and I decided to just keep using it as-is as I liked the UI.

Fun fact: it is not an entirely new idea. Microsoft did something similar with Active Desktop in Windows 98 but was later removed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Advertising is a goddamn disease.

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