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Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business

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Re: Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business

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Post by blinkingled »

Why? Windows 11 as an advertising business wasn't nasty enough for Microsoft?

I installed it on one of my sparingly used machines and it's as blatant as it gets. The Edge push, all the installed crapware, the telemetry and God knows what else - either way it didn't feel like I was running my own OS - instead it felt like I was running a rented one at a Kinkos.

Re: Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business

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Post by mistrial9 »

netr0ute wrote: post #2

Every day since Windows 11's release, Microsoft is alienating people and indirectly making desktop Linux the better option.

the benefits are for executive management and their investors, not users. Users's ad impressions and profiles are a product for management; more so for Teams.

Re: Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business

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Post by jahnu »

netr0ute wrote: post #2

Every day since Windows 11's release, Microsoft is alienating people and indirectly making desktop Linux the better option.

I'm a software engineer and have many software engineering friends and acquaintances and still even in this group of people who are almost all at least comfortable with Linux hardly any use it for anything except work or learning.

It's roughly a 50/50 split for the rest between Windows and macOS.

So how can it be remotely plausible that Linux will become a mainstream desktop/laptop OS?

Non IT workers also seem to favour a combo of phones and tablets too only using laptops for work not caring what it runs.

Re: Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business

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Post by capableweb »

jahnu wrote: post #7
netr0ute wrote: post #2

Every day since Windows 11's release, Microsoft is alienating people and indirectly making desktop Linux the better option.

I'm a software engineer and have many software engineering friends and acquaintances and still even in this group of people who are almost all at least comfortable with Linux hardly any use it for anything except work or learning. It's roughly a 50/50 split for the rest between Windows and macOS. So how can it be remotely plausible that Linux will become a mainstream desktop/laptop OS? Non IT workers also seem to fav…

> So how can it be remotely plausible that Linux will become a mainstream desktop/laptop OS?

Because of time and inevitable changes happening to everything over time.

Remember when Windows was nothing and everyone was using something else? Remember when macOS was nothing and everyone was using something else? Same thing can happen with Linux, or some other operating system. Sure, might take 10, 50, 100 years, but eventually, Windows and macOS (and probably Linux) will be relics of the past.

Re: Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business

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Post by PaulHoule »

mistrial9 wrote: post #5
netr0ute wrote: post #2

Every day since Windows 11's release, Microsoft is alienating people and indirectly making desktop Linux the better option.

the benefits are for executive management and their investors, not users. Users's ad impressions and profiles are a product for management; more so for Teams.

Xandr seems to be one of those worthless businesses that gets passed around like a football between larger businesses just to make the balance sheets of the larger businesses incomprehensible. Right up there with Pivotal.
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