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Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by adithyassekhar »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #3

Every couple of weeks Windows shows a FULL SCREEN advertisement during boot/login which requires several clicks to get rid of. They advertise everything starting from Microsoft Accounts, OneDrive, MS Edge ( https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-n... ) , Windows 11 ( https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/167013949... ) , and a long etc. This is not a small advert in a small corner of…

In Settings>System>Notifications> go to the bottom and expand the last row. In it there's an option to Show you ways to improve something something. Uncheck that.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by archerx »

dspillett wrote: post #101
twawaaay wrote: post #53

It is death of an operating system. Before our eyes. Microsoft is trying desperately to squeeze a bit more cash out of it but the failing culture within Microsoft is unable to recognise they are driving users off their own product. I already got fed up enough that I basically banned Windows at home and I am impatiently waiting to kill one last Windows box. It is our gaming machine that is generally available to entir…

> but the failing culture within Microsoft is unable to recognise they are driving users off their own product. Many recognise it, but don't care. Windows is not longer the cash-cow it once was even on the server. Azure is the new baby there – they don't care what server OS you run as long as you run it on their kit. In homes and offices Windows is just a vehicle for Office and Visual Studio, they are pushing people…

I used azure at a previous job and it was awful, I even convinced the company to ditch it and buy a cheap local server. The end result is it was faster, they saved money and things worked better. If microsoft is really betting all its cards on azure then I would absolutely short it if I was into finance.

Once my Windows 10 no longer works I will NOT be upgrading to Windows 11, I will either go linux or mac because I can’t tolerate microsofts crap anymore. I will never pay for an azure office or visual studio subscription, I will avoid microsoft products like the plague after all the crap they pulled and I have been using windows since version 3.11

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by withinboredom »

midoridensha wrote: post #183
falcolas wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outside is boring and, compared to pc gaming, expensive. You have to drive to get anywhere interesting (expensive), there are parking and entrance and camping fees, tourists, and the view is mostly the same as the last twelve times. Sports leagues are expensive, time consuming, and prone to serious injuries you’ll be feeling for decades (and expensive too). And then there’s the short and long term costs associated wi…

>You have to drive to get anywhere interesting (expensive) Only in America. Thankfully, 95% of the world's population lives somewhere else.

I was about the say the same. Moved out of the US five years ago. I can hop on bike and be at a national forest in 10 minutes, taking nothing but dedicated bike roads.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by withinboredom »

orwin wrote: post #138
nice_byte wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. I don't understand why people choose to rag on Microsoft when literally everyone else who has something to sell you besides the OS itself, does this. Maybe it's because Windows is from the era when MS was not a services company, and people, by force of inertia, expect windows to continue behaving as if MS is not a services company.

Redhat have something else to sell besides the Os and don't for that. Not a Redhat user BTW.

I guess you haven’t read their documentation…

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by MikusR »

latsnoopy wrote: post #25
smnrchrds wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish Apple was actually good in that regard. I ended up uninstalling Apple Stocks app from my Mac and iPhone because of all the terrible ads. The ads I saw were even worse than this: https://images.app.goo.gl/dVbDoBuScVzp3uAg9

wtf, i have never seen any add in ios including stock app

You never looked in settings?

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by rkagerer »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #3

Every couple of weeks Windows shows a FULL SCREEN advertisement during boot/login which requires several clicks to get rid of. They advertise everything starting from Microsoft Accounts, OneDrive, MS Edge ( https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-n... ) , Windows 11 ( https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/167013949... ) , and a long etc. This is not a small advert in a small corner of…

And yet HN still gives me grief for my deliberate choice not to 'upgrade' Windows 7.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by MikusR »

howard941 wrote: post #41
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #3

Every couple of weeks Windows shows a FULL SCREEN advertisement during boot/login which requires several clicks to get rid of. They advertise everything starting from Microsoft Accounts, OneDrive, MS Edge ( https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-n... ) , Windows 11 ( https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/167013949... ) , and a long etc. This is not a small advert in a small corner of…

This also happens to a machine that's left on overnight. Something Happens and it reboots - I lose my RDP connection - to this awful dialog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday been a thing for 20 years.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by MikusR »

btgeekboy wrote: post #11
capableweb wrote: post #8

Great, I just updated to Windows 11 in hope of getting WSL2 + Arch Linux + CUDA + Docker but it didn't pan out in the end, had to move back to proper Linux for that piece of work. But seems I'm stuck with Windows 11 now and additionally, the running applications that show up in the taskbar suddenly can only show icons, no text allowed. I started to regret my decision to upgrade, and this just adds insult to injury.

Didn’t applications used to be able to show their titles in the taskbar under W11 if you change the taskbar settings? Did that go away, or am I imagining that ability?

It was never in Windows 11. Because the Start/taskbar are repurposed from twice failed Windows 10x. An os that initially was made for a portable small dual screen device with each screen dedicated to a single open application.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by glayciar »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #137
mooman219 wrote: post #98

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I was thinking the same thing. Apple berates the user quite a bit to onboard to iCloud and other services; the screenshot of the new promotion looks about in line with that. If I was a Microsoft PM I'd just pitch the menu as "Apple has the same thing and users are complacent", and get sign off in no time. I think this is fine battle to pick, I have OneDrive uninstalled on my Windows machine, but I think it's a bit si…

macOS keeps a permanent 'important' notification in Settings if you don't setup iCloud. I see it every week when I use the iMac in the theater I help out at.

Really? I don't see this in Ventura. I don't see the Windows stuff either so maybe I'm special somehow!

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by amitrip »

pkilgore wrote: post #85

How outrageous! Let me close the Apple Music window for this App I can't uninstall, and that popup that says I can't save my notes unless I have iCloud, and look past the automatically included Apple News and Apple Financed widgets in the notification panel I accidentally opened to go open a browser that defaults to showing me the shortcuts for several third party companies whose services I do not use to get on the i…

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