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Post by Nextgrid »

vbezhenar wrote: post #117
Nextgrid wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you get a license for that? As far as I know you can't easily. You need to find a reseller and there's a minimum amount of licenses you need to buy so you can't just buy one. I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this. There's basically zero effort involved in setting up a credit card payment form that gives out product keys, and there'd be at least some demand for it.

Because they know that it'll be incredibly popular and will force them to continue backporting updates. They want to move forward and users want to stay on one place. In the past users managed to keep Microsoft from moving forward. Now they want to force users to move forward. Nobody is happy in both cases, it seems.

What I don’t get is that as a company, money should be their objective. They have people asking to pay money for a license, why not charge whatever it takes to make backporting updates profitable and call it a day?

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

swiley wrote: post #121
Krssst wrote: post #105

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Since Windows 7 is going to lose security updates, I have been looking at what to replace it with. My main use case being games (actual work and internet being on Debian). What I found was that Windows Server seems to cut most of the features I do not want in Windows (Cortana, Windows Store and Microsoft accounts, OneDrive...) while still being purchasable on Amazon (although at 3-6 times the price). There are severa…

Oh my god just use wine. This is getting ridiculous!

Sadly still not compatible with all applications.

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Post by devicetray0 »

dareobasanjo wrote: post #132

Microsoft isn't selling your PC usage data to advertisers. If you doubt me, go ahead and show me how you can buy this data. I'll gladly give you my next month's salary if you can.

These kinds of deals are enterprise-level, in meeting rooms, with sales people. They don't happen on the public web. So your challenge isn't plausible and you take no risk here

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Post by fortran77 »

pcr910303 wrote: post #32

A little bit irrelevant to the article: Unpopular opinion but, is opt-outtable telemetry that bad? Of course using tracked behaviors for add targeting is bad (which is why my opinion is irrelevant to the article) but using telemetry to do AB-tests, UX-tests, finding bugs, etc... what’s really bad about it? Every comment about telemetry in HN reads something like ‘Telemetry with opt-out is bad, so GitLab is bad, VSCod…

I use Windows 10 pro out-of-the-box on all my machines. I change few default settings. Seeing a tile for the latest Microsoft game in the Start menu just doesn't bother me. I like Cortana. I just checked on the weather.

I note that Macs have an unremovable Siri, but nobody here is upset about that.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by DavideNL »

I recently had to install Windows 10 and ended up installing "Windows 10 LTSC". Right after install i used "O&O shutup" and "Win10-Initial-Setup-Script" to get some sane defaults/strip all the crap.

It's sad that Windows itself has become bloatware...

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by fortran77 »

microtheo wrote: post #138
frou_dh wrote: post #30

When a clean install of Windows 10 ""Professional"" had prominent ads for Candy Crush in the Start Menu, is when I realized MS had lost their dignity.

I don't get this kind of comment. I bought a surface pro 2 years ago. I had to turn off the promoted apps and uninstall a few commercial games. But since then, no commercial ever appeared on my start screen. Not saying it's good to bundle commercial app. But its not hell either, like Google pushing you to their services every time you use their search engine or YouTube... And I think it's really bad practice to use s…

I agree. I wonder if Apple put a little tile up to show the new Mac Pro, or of Red Hat put a little widget up to show Red Hat cloud suite would we hear the same complaints.

It's just a little tile that shows a Microsoft product.

I run Windows 10 out-of-the-box on all my machines. I don't run any special "cracks" to remove features, but I may have turned off a few things from Control Panel; I don't remember.

It's a very good operating system. Rock solid. Runs 64- and 32- bit Windows programs, Linux Programs, and anything I want in a VM.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by fortran77 »

My business partner's kid runs a cracked Windows 10 LTSC when he plays games because "he doesn't like Microsoft spying on him" as if he's some valuable target.

Because it's hacked, it's crashy (and also his "rig" is overclocked and badly integrated.) And of course, he blames "Windows" for being so crashy.

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Post by whamlastxmas »

dareobasanjo wrote: post #132

Microsoft isn't selling your PC usage data to advertisers. If you doubt me, go ahead and show me how you can buy this data. I'll gladly give you my next month's salary if you can.

Microsoft comes with third party games installed by default. I am certain that those are paid for, I am certain if you open that software it phones home to let them know you did, and I'm certain that information gets sent to the game developer.

I'll take PayPal

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by greggman2 »

dareobasanjo wrote: post #132

Microsoft isn't selling your PC usage data to advertisers. If you doubt me, go ahead and show me how you can buy this data. I'll gladly give you my next month's salary if you can.

it does not matter if they sell it or not I don't want it collected. It could later be subpoenaed or stolen. They should just not collect it in the first place

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by lostgame »

tomglynch wrote: post #3
acqq wrote: post #2

The link from the PDF booklet targeted to those who would buy Microsoft's ad services: https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us?s_int=en-us-gct-web-sr... "Sign up for a Microsoft Advertising account to take advantage of these tools or get in touch with an account representative. If you already have a Microsoft Advertising account, log in or talk to your account representative about how to be a High Performer" which lead…

> "a couple of dudes snooping on animals, taking pictures and analyzing them while on Safari." > I don't think the choice of the photo is irrelevant. Irrelevant. Safari isn't available on windows. Edge, Chrome or Firefox would be relevant.

Safari for Windows:

http://appldnld.apple.com/Safari5/041-5487.20120509.INU8B/Sa...

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