Advertising has no place in an operating system. Full stop.
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2025
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"Microsoft testing new ways to lose customers".
It's well known that piracy was what made Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS) the de facto standard.
If the kids at home can't use windows, they'll find something different. And when enough of them find if, when they become decision makers they'll stay away from Windows.
Imagine how different the landscape would be had MS cracked down on Piracy for their flagship programs.
iMacs in schools weren’t for nothing, and neither are the weirdly good deals on Apple products for students and teachers. At a time when people are learning about these programs and using the machines pretty aggressively the good product company comes along and gives them affordable-ish equipment with a nice stable OS.
Tim Cook Apple being kinda underwhelming and being way more expensive than Steve Jobs Apple is not helping their image but they still have decent deals and are able to ride said image for a very long time thanks largely to Jobs understanding what you’re talking about.
Back to Microsoft, they don’t seem to understand that the general consensus on them has mostly always been that Windows is cheap and not amazing but certain programs run on only it. Now they want to make it cost a tonne of money/have ads? Jobs’ Apple products where expensive but they were high quality. Microsoft just can’t pull the same shit with their dogshit legacy-coded 30 year old hack-job OS and consistently mediocre-to-bad products. And they have to do it while competing with Linux amongst the very people who were doing most of the loud fan-boying for their shit for so long!
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Also Microsoft: “Why aren’t people upgrading to Windows 11?”
“Nobody wants to Windows anymore!”
Once you people have finally had enough, Linux and/or Libre Office will be right there. Waiting.
I did this over a year ago. Man, I love that my computing is boring again. No distractions. The machine does what I tell it to do. It's lovely! Boring is lovely.
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Of course they are. Coincidentally, newer devices being bought in 2025 are increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.
This is false information.
I thought that was illegal.
Do you happen to know any specific hardware that does so? I haven't heard of that and I'm genuinely curious.
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I tried to do a dual boot on my bf's new laptop, he was li-curious, it ended up being such a hassle he just switched entirely. He prefers the Mac like interface on Wayland.
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Luckily at work we are allowed to install a dual boot, or even single boot with Linux. The one obligation is to run the corporate antivirus and vpn client (and yes we had malware detections of Linux binaries).
Dual booting for the last 6 months, now 100% on Linux (Mint). Can’t say I miss anything from windows, maybe ms office’s polished apps but I can’t care less. Nowadays everything runs in the browser, it has become « the OS ». And almost every browser is a chromium variant that’s it.
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Lmao. Genius, hope whoever suggested this got a raise. Can imagine the meeting where it has been decided. "Hey, have we thought about fullscreen ads for something we want to push on people?” "Genius idea, Maxwell! Go home to your wife and kids and tell them a big fat bonus is coming to their smart father!”
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Will they run in WINE?
Tricky. Microsoft currently use two different executable formats and only one of them is compatible with WINE. That still doesn't mean that a compatible one will work properly though.
On the other hand, people who make ads want their ads to be literally everywhere, so they might make it Windows 3.11 compatible with all library functions baked in just to be safe. WINE would almost certainly run that.
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So glad I completely gave up on MS after Windows 7.
I'm in a constant battle to keep it removed off our office machines. You can't remove it completely since its cached and installed with every user login. In order to get rid of it we would have to pay for the enterprise version. Just another rip off from macroshit.
I have a windows game box, it nags me to backup my photos when I visualise 1 (one) image.
What a shit OS it has become lol.
Thank goodness I have zero use for any of their products.