Hasn't MSFT ever heard of a 'Loss Leader'?
Windows 10 now wants you to pay for Solitaire
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Re: Windows 10 now wants you to pay for Solitaire
#42This is the nadir of the utterly rancid freemium model of software.
Re: Windows 10 now wants you to pay for Solitaire
#43Ads inside an operating system (startmenu) and in applications that are included by default (Solitaire). I never saw that, not in Android, not in iOS, not in OSX. All telemetry, key and audio capturing and auto-cloud-upload, peer-to-peer-updates, forced updates, ...these new "features"/annoyances aren't well received. What's going on at Microsoft campus? On iOS one can simply deactivate Siri and iCloud, that's it, tw…
>> Ads inside an operating system (startmenu) and in applications that are included by default (Solitaire).
See, a couple of years back some of us correctly called that this kind of crap was on the way, but we got shouted down with the usual "hur dur slippery slope fallicy" argument.
This smells like vindication.