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Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by muststopmyths »

commandersaki wrote: post #130
ohthehugemanate wrote: post #58

What a load of shit. I love the guy trying to infer Microsoft's ad profit centers by trying to read between the lines of marketing copy. Entertaining stuff. But let's not confuse this for grown up analysis. Microsoft releases their financials, like every publicly traded corporation. Bing search ads are a small part of revenu, about 5% of what Azure earns, and stable. Desktop ads are a vanishingly small line item. Mic…

> The only valid part if the article is that it's hard to believe that anyone really wants a voice assistant. I think voice assistance shines on mobile devices because of clumsy UI. Here's an elaborate example: When I finish a dentist appointment I negotiate a follow up with the receptionist after paying my bill. I can then dictate to siri to schedule the next appointment rather than clumsily typing it all in. A more…

>Unless you're completely inept with your computer there's really no reason to use the voice interface. I think we already learned this lesson otherwise Dragon Dictate would've taken off decades ago.

I must be completely inept because I find saying "Hey Cortana, remind me to abc at xyz" right when something occurs to me a lot more convenient than opening my web-based calender and going through the rigmarole of setting up a reminder.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by antpls »

dareobasanjo wrote: post #132

Microsoft isn't selling your PC usage data to advertisers. If you doubt me, go ahead and show me how you can buy this data. I'll gladly give you my next month's salary if you can.

This question : "how can I buy data from X" should be asked more often on HN, for factual purposes. I would like the same question asked about Google.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by bmn__ »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #109
JoshTriplett wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> emailing me PDFs that only Acroread can open Please post any examples of those to the evince project as a bug report.

They're literally everywhere. I pulled this one off the top of my head: https://www.aoc.cat/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/sol_cert_pers...

Okular 1.8.2 says the document contains XFA forms and it's not yet supported. This is the first time I ever even heard of this. " rel="nofollow">https://enwp.org/XFA> says the technology is already deprecated.

I have used Okular many times for PDFs with embedded forms (no apparent special name). I think you should notify the originator of the unusable PDFs that they should redo the file with regular embedded forms so that they work in most PDF readers.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

#135

Post by bmn__ »

tuesday20 wrote: post #115
jk3faster wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What is the alternative for average consumers ? Chrome books ? GNU/Linux! Any mainstream beginner friendly GNU/Linux distribution like Linux Mint or Ubuntu will be descent enough for average consumers. Unless you are heavily dependent on Adobe softwares(even then, you can consider dual boot), they are now much more elegant than windows. Getting quality support from forums is actually much easier with GNU/Linux. Las…

Can you recommend good laptop that come with Linux installed?

Choice is greatly diminished compared with ten years ago. I'm satisfied with http://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

#136

Post by ilikehurdles »

martius wrote: post #81
panpanna wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder what engineers working on vscode and wsl feel when they run into people working on OS monetization in the company restaurant... What do you need to say in your interview to be assigned to the latter team?

What do they feel? What about being thankful for being a revenue stream, it allows us to work on more free (as in beer) and open source developer tools

Seems similar to being thankful that the mafia’s criminal acts help fund its philanthropy in the community.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by 9HZZRfNlpR »

commandersaki wrote: post #130
ohthehugemanate wrote: post #58

What a load of shit. I love the guy trying to infer Microsoft's ad profit centers by trying to read between the lines of marketing copy. Entertaining stuff. But let's not confuse this for grown up analysis. Microsoft releases their financials, like every publicly traded corporation. Bing search ads are a small part of revenu, about 5% of what Azure earns, and stable. Desktop ads are a vanishingly small line item. Mic…

> The only valid part if the article is that it's hard to believe that anyone really wants a voice assistant. I think voice assistance shines on mobile devices because of clumsy UI. Here's an elaborate example: When I finish a dentist appointment I negotiate a follow up with the receptionist after paying my bill. I can then dictate to siri to schedule the next appointment rather than clumsily typing it all in. A more…

Unless you're completely inept with computer it's always faster to do the tasks with hands.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

#138

Post by microtheo »

frou_dh wrote: post #30

When a clean install of Windows 10 ""Professional"" had prominent ads for Candy Crush in the Start Menu, is when I realized MS had lost their dignity.

I don't get this kind of comment. I bought a surface pro 2 years ago. I had to turn off the promoted apps and uninstall a few commercial games. But since then, no commercial ever appeared on my start screen. Not saying it's good to bundle commercial app. But its not hell either, like Google pushing you to their services every time you use their search engine or YouTube... And I think it's really bad practice to use scripts that break standard behavior of windows and nothing that should be encouraged to non technical people

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by pixl97 »

antpls wrote: post #133
dareobasanjo wrote: post #132

Microsoft isn't selling your PC usage data to advertisers. If you doubt me, go ahead and show me how you can buy this data. I'll gladly give you my next month's salary if you can.

This question : "how can I buy data from X" should be asked more often on HN, for factual purposes. I would like the same question asked about Google.

Or should this question be asked as "what type of warrant needs served for law enforcement to get this data from Microsoft about you"
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