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[–] JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The new Start menu is also a significant improvement over the old one, with more icons on show, the ability to turn off Recommended ads, [...]

Guys, we are allowed to disable the ads now. We might have been too harsh on microsoft after all.

...insanity, I tell you. Ads, in your face, right in the Start Menu, on your computer that you bought, on your OS that you bought.

[–] g0nz0li0@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

And everywhere you go there's prompts and alerts to upgrade your OneDrive storage or subscribe to Xbox game pass.

Don't even get me started on the experience on handhelds. Microsoft's attempts so far at the Xbox Full Screen experience convinces me they will never get it right.

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