Please please MS just put someone in charge with taste who can veto this trashy rubbish.
Whatever gains you're perceiving from this on your profit chart isn't worth the compounding deterioration of your products experience.
Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
51–60 of 647 posts
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#52Please please MS just put someone in charge with taste who can veto this trashy rubbish. Whatever gains you're perceiving from this on your profit chart isn't worth the compounding deterioration of your products experience.
On the other hand, Windows is on a lot of computers these days. They may be making absurd amounts of money off of this arrangement.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#53Gotta love how the only dismissal option is "Remind me later" and gives no option to not show again.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#54> As Microsoft puts it: “We are continuing the exploration of badging on the Start menu with several new treatments for users logging in with local user accounts to highlight the benefits of signing in with a Microsoft account (MSA).”
What is Microsoft really thinking here? You have to go out of your way (and probably do a web search) in order to figure out how to install Win 11 without using a Microsoft Account. So those people deliberately chose that -- they didn't avoid the MSA because they were unaware of the benefits, they did it because they were aware of the drawbacks and want to avoid them.
Harassing them seems more likely to make them angry than to make them change their minds.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#55There is no point in fighting against BS. It needs to be abandoned like many people did with Facebook.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#56The only reason I use Windows in 2023 is for video gaming. Every other non-gaming PC I own is running Linux. Windows has become inferior to Linux in every other way. More upgrade headaches, worse resource utilization, worse desktop environment, more crashes, data collection, and now embedded ads. These technology companies have really demonstrated over the past few decades that they are unable to maintain reliable pr…
Beginning with the XP I became a heavy Windows user until version 7. Those releases were the heyday for Windows IMO. But since 8 and, worse of all, 11 I ditched it altogether and none of the computing devices in the house run Windows. This is all to say that my main gaming rig runs Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Gnome, heavily tweaked, to look and behave like MacOS and.... Its a dream. Heck, in fact I like it so much that I p…
What kind of graphics card are you using and have you run into many issues for multi display and/or high refresh rates (assuming you're running this)?
I'm so close to dumping windows and my final concern is gpu and multi monitor support. I only ever run linux on servers or VMs, so no real experience on bare metal.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#57> As Microsoft puts it: “We are continuing the exploration of badging on the Start menu with several new treatments for users logging in with local user accounts to highlight the benefits of signing in with a Microsoft account (MSA).” What is Microsoft really thinking here? You have to go out of your way (and probably do a web search) in order to figure out how to install Win 11 without using a Microsoft Account. So…
You could set machines up for family that don't know better and they will see the popup and create the account themselves... same as with badgering for upgrades, had family that eventually upgraded by mistake then panick if/when things didnt work
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#58There is no point in fighting against BS. It needs to be abandoned like many people did with Facebook.
I abandoned Windows on my own machines over 20 years ago. Sadly, however, I'm still forced to use it at work. If I could abandon it there, too, I would in a heartbeat.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#59Please please MS just put someone in charge with taste who can veto this trashy rubbish. Whatever gains you're perceiving from this on your profit chart isn't worth the compounding deterioration of your products experience.
You should've learned having taste is an instant disqualifier for employment at Microsoft after Windows 8.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#60Move over to linux. KDE has the eye-candy, XFCE has the simplicity and OpenBOX is distraction free. Games work well and so do dev tools.