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Except windows isn't free. Even users who upgraded for free initially paid for a windows license (at least outside of China).
Paying for the privilege of seeing adverts. So fundamentally MS. I'm so glad Win7 will be supported until 2020.
Seems like the only way people want to make money these days is through invasive advertising without the end-user's explicit consent. Granted the expectation of free software is driving most of this, but it starts a vicious cycle because those who get annoyed with them develop countermeasures, which the creator responds to with more aggressive ads, ad infinitum. It does start explaining some of the highly controversi…
If only there really was universal expectation of free software. Then we'd really be getting somewhere.
I really don't like this direction that MS is heading. I'd rather they charger for Windows 10 and newer and not start bundling software and pushing ads by default. Also, fuck buying games off the Windows store, Steam and any other service that locks you into DRM. My steam client in Linux is hopelessly broken due to updates. Some of my games will still play, but most require the stupid Steam DRM layer. I should have b…
Steam is the best of a bad bunch really - it's not perfect, but it's much fairer than other platforms. There's another article on HTG (linked from this one) that outlines the differences between Steam and Windows Store, and Steam scores quite highly. I was very surprised when some of my older games suddenly popped up as being available on Linux for no extra cost. When the Steam DRM works properly, it's pretty non-inv…
Disclosures: I work at Microsoft and really don't like advertising-supported products.
"When the item is free, you are the product" is the lesson of this past decade. I am at least repeatedly learning this over and over again.
That doesn't necessarily hold true for FOSS, though.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except windows isn't free. Even users who upgraded for free initially paid for a windows license (at least outside of China).
Paying for the privilege of seeing adverts. So fundamentally MS. I'm so glad Win7 will be supported until 2020.
edit: comma
One day it may be the only way to use Windows programs without this kind of end-user harassment.