I miss Windows 8.1. There, I said it.
Windows 2000 for 4life
Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
21–30 of 413 posts
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#22Is it at all ironic that I get a page that is trying to force me to turn off my ad blocker when I am trying to view a link about Microsoft putting ads in their Mail app?
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#23I miss Windows 8.1. There, I said it.
Windows 7 was the best version they shipped and the last worth installing.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#24I miss Windows 8.1. There, I said it.
What was good about it compared to Windows 7?
Not the biggest fan of 8 series, but the best thing about it was some of the energy optimisations - as they were going to target mobile. The kernel hibernation is good, for quicker start up. But sadly that's at the expense of hibernating proper.
8.1 brought back things like the closing button on metro apps, and some other fudging, to make it a bit more Win 7, and it just felt like even more of an abomination. The control panel/metro settings mixed UI - is the thing that killed Windows for me. In Windows 10, I can't find anything setting wise particularly easily. And on a recent new laptop start up, I cringed at all the options that I had to turn off, and at the apps I tried to remove.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#25I currently use this on my Surface because it's more touch-friendly than Gmail's website, but it looks like I'll be moving on.
Any recommendations for a touch-friendly (i.e. must be UWP) mail app for Windows?
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#26Pay for Windows, get bloatware and ads. Pay for Mac OS...don't. Use Google, get everything for free subsidized by ads. Pay for Windows, still get ads? Hmmmmm
You don’t pay for macOS though. EDIT: yes you can argue you pay for it with your purchase of hardware but you don’t pay for future revisions.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#27OSX: Pay here. Not enough, we increased our prices! Oh, don't forget your dongles!
Windows: Oh you want to rename a file that is opened by an application? Fuck you. We're not even capable of telling you what application. Have some ads instead!
Linux: Ooh you thought you could use $APPLICATION_NAME? Sorry, that isn't available, but you can try $MEDIOCRE_ALTERNATIVE instead.
I'm not a fanboy, I hate every major desktop OS.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#28Pay for Windows, get bloatware and ads. Pay for Mac OS...don't. Use Google, get everything for free subsidized by ads. Pay for Windows, still get ads? Hmmmmm
Get Linux for free, still don't get ads.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#29Pay for Windows, get bloatware and ads. Pay for Mac OS...don't. Use Google, get everything for free subsidized by ads. Pay for Windows, still get ads? Hmmmmm
You don’t pay for macOS though. EDIT: yes you can argue you pay for it with your purchase of hardware but you don’t pay for future revisions.
You do implicitly with your purchase of Apple hardware.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#30Pay for Windows, get bloatware and ads. Pay for Mac OS...don't. Use Google, get everything for free subsidized by ads. Pay for Windows, still get ads? Hmmmmm
You don’t pay for macOS though. EDIT: yes you can argue you pay for it with your purchase of hardware but you don’t pay for future revisions.
You do, but it's included in the hardware price.