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Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)

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Re: Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)

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It's not the bugs that are an issue with 10. It's the mountains of nagware, spyware and advertisements built in to it.

I use 10 daily and see no ads. Where does windows 10 show ads?

Give a non-technical user a copy of Windows 10 and Chrome, wait a few days for the third party ad networks to catch up, and then watch as advertisement after advertisement pop up in the lower right hand corner.

I'd also like to mention the Microsoft News program as being an annoying delivery mechanism for such content (it seems to have some relationship with the browser based on how the user uses the Internet).

Re: Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)

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Perhaps with you, but looking at the market share he is mostly right.

To be fair, the market share being dominated by Windows has a lot to do with history and strategic deals Microsoft made with the OEM's. Vast majority of devices ship with Windows.

I tried a lot of different OS and I still prefer Windows.

Looking at declining market share of Mac, you are not correct.

Also, I don't see a lot of Linux on other people's Pc

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