While I think this is great, when is Google going to stop showing pop ups on GMail, YouTube and Search that try to get people to use Chrome?
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
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#102Microsoft really needs to take a real hard look at Windows and figure out what its place is in the world. I know very few people outside of gamers that have a full computer outside of one given for work. This is one of the many reasons that my windows computer is solely for gaming (and I use a debloated Windows 10 LTS install) and never has anything sensitive on it. Any general computing tasks happen on my Mac. I wou…
Their current approach to Windows seems to be to milk it as much as possible before the desktop dies out.
That seems to me to be begging the question.
I see no evidence that the desktop will "die out". It may change form, and it may be used by a smaller percentage of the computing public, but the idea that we're going to see a time without significant usage of desktop (or laptop) computers within the foreseeable future just seems laughable to me.
It smacks, to me, of the idea that the only thing worth being in the market is the very top: the company selling the biggest product, making the most money—otherwise you might as well not even bother.
This is toxic thinking.
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#103Everyone is doing it.
Google is using Google search to shove ads for Chrome in your face.
Microsoft is using Windows showing ads for Bing in your Face.
Apple is using the settings app to shove ads for TV, Fitness subscriptions, etc. in your face.
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#104I want everyone here to completely get over the fantasy fairytale idea that Microsoft can be moved on this by typical "consumer feedback" types of responses.
We've been here too long, and we know what Microsoft is and what they do.
Switch operating systems, or push for EXTERNAL changes in law and policy.
The other stuff is futile.
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#105Governments should make this illegal
This is 100% a better reply than any of the silly wishful thinking; "maybe we can talk to Microsoft and protest and hope they change."
Ain't happening, y'all. Time to grow up.
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#106I do wonder what operating system managers of Microsoft use at home and what they think about stuff like those pop-ups.
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#107I'm a big fan of WSL, which has kept me on Windows for years more than I otherwise would have. But I can't stand the scammy adware infused OS Windows has become and will be moving to Apple Silicon full-time when the next gen M3 Desktop hardware is out. As a recent M2 Macbook Air owner I'm surprised how much software supports ARM/Apple Silicon natively, where everything I use daily as a .NET developer worked OOB [1].…
I use one Windows desktop for a LLM & Stable Diffusion server (among others). I like to conserve power, so I have remote power switch (just a smart plug) and configured wake on Lan with very short time to sleep. I have been very happy with it working, until it suddenly stops responding.
I walk back to it and 5 out of 6 times it's Windows update blue full screen that essentially reads "we're changing settings for browser". That one time is BSOD
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Microsoft really needs to take a real hard look at Windows and figure out what its place is in the world. They did. But they looks in the wrong mirror from the wrong angle. They probably asked a few business people in microsoft what can the company do to increase revenue, and that's what they came up with. > I would love to ditch Windows and go to Linux for gaming but as good as proton is. The more people that play…
I disagree with the idea of leaving negative reviews just because a game doesn’t support a specific platform. It’s the same toxic fanboy wars we see if a game doesn’t come out on a specific console or available on a specific store. Doing so costs money for a small portion of the community. Ultimately these studios are businesses and have to make financial choices. I do fully recognize that this is a chicken and the e…
Leaving a negative review of the product because it doesn't work where you want it to work is absolutely not "toxic fanboy" behavior, its called being an advocate for your own interests. As the person paying up to 70$ for the game, consumers deserve to have their voices heard. Besides, is anyone actually worried about the rampant "toxicity" in the reviews section on a games steam page? Seems a bit pearl clutch-y.
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#109I do wonder what operating system managers of Microsoft use at home and what they think about stuff like those pop-ups.
Either they use slightly-debloated LTS* version, or have unfortunately been desensitised to it too; just look at how a "normal" user browses without any adblocker.
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#110Windows, the Lada of operating systems. I had to try and get my wife's laptop working with the VPN the other day. Worked fine on Mac and Linux, but on Windows, I had to uninstall a load of drivers and then do a registry hack. What a pile of shite.
Uninstall drivers? Wtf