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0 pointszer0zzz1y ago0 comments

People need to get over the in OS ads. They’re easily removable honestly. Personally I’ve never seen windows look this good in years. The whole system shell looks really good and well designed these days. On top of that the included features like wsl2 and hyperv are great.

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Dalewyn1y ago

I disagree that we should just "get over" ads, I fucking paid cold hard cash for a Windows license after all. It's either ads with a free license, or no ads with a license bought and paid for. No fucking double dipping.

That said, most if not all the nonsense can easily be disabled or removed so I agree with your overall position.

zer0zzzOP1y ago

While my rhetoric was overly dismissive of people’s gripes, I do agree completely with your sentiment.

2Gkashmiri1y ago

But Microsoft is subsidising cost of the immense infra and development cost by showing you ads in excahnge for a cheaper license.

jijji1y ago

I hope that was sarcasm

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Dalewyn1y ago

I'm paying around $200 bucks for a Windows 11 Pro license, you bet your ass I am not expecting ads after paying two motherfucking Franklins.

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bediger40001y ago

This is the road to hell. We all know that advertising eventually corrupts the advertising platform. It happened with radio, broadcast TV, cable TV and the web.

You'll be very sorry in a very short time if you put up with ads in an OS you paid for, on hardware you paid for. You're letting Microsoft externalize some of the cost of advertising to you.

zer0zzzOP1y ago

Apple is no different other than the fact they are slow walking it.

bediger40001y ago

And so? The context is Windows and Microsoft. I, personally, am a Linux user. The warning about advertising is still true.

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Tao33001y ago

And you need to get bent.

Pardon my French, but someone had to say it and you needed to hear it.

zer0zzzOP1y ago

I wonder when the HN police are gonna show up to tell you you’re violating site policy. Any day now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Tao33001y ago

They're always hot on my trail... but between you and me, you want to know what they can do? :)

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zer0zzzOP1y ago

I still maintain, despite the gross ads this release of windows is one of the best. I was much more bothered by past versions.

jijji1y ago

it's really not the ads that upset me, it's the remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that take Microsoft 3 years to fix that's kind of where I have a problem. I stopped using Microsoft products in like 1991 man sorry

zer0zzzOP1y ago

I totally agree here. My point was more that I am more happy with the improvements to windows than I am annoyed with ads I can easily disable.

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Dalewyn1y ago

That said, most if not all the nonsense can easily be disabled or removed so I agree with your overall position.

zer0zzzOP1y ago

While my rhetoric was overly dismissive of people’s gripes, I do agree completely with your sentiment.

2Gkashmiri1y ago

But Microsoft is subsidising cost of the immense infra and development cost by showing you ads in excahnge for a cheaper license.

jijji1y ago

I hope that was sarcasm

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Dalewyn1y ago

I'm paying around $200 bucks for a Windows 11 Pro license, you bet your ass I am not expecting ads after paying two motherfucking Franklins.

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bediger40001y ago

This is the road to hell. We all know that advertising eventually corrupts the advertising platform. It happened with radio, broadcast TV, cable TV and the web.

You'll be very sorry in a very short time if you put up with ads in an OS you paid for, on hardware you paid for. You're letting Microsoft externalize some of the cost of advertising to you.

zer0zzzOP1y ago

Apple is no different other than the fact they are slow walking it.

bediger40001y ago

And so? The context is Windows and Microsoft. I, personally, am a Linux user. The warning about advertising is still true.

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Tao33001y ago

And you need to get bent.

Pardon my French, but someone had to say it and you needed to hear it.

zer0zzzOP1y ago

I wonder when the HN police are gonna show up to tell you you’re violating site policy. Any day now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Tao33001y ago

They're always hot on my trail... but between you and me, you want to know what they can do? :)

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zer0zzzOP1y ago

I still maintain, despite the gross ads this release of windows is one of the best. I was much more bothered by past versions.

jijji1y ago

zer0zzzOP1y ago

I totally agree here. My point was more that I am more happy with the improvements to windows than I am annoyed with ads I can easily disable.

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