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Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now - Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions. (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] Postimo@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well Windows sales might, but that's why you gotta pay for pro mode that removes all the ad shit. Otherwise they would lose out on the additional 2/5 or whatever that comes from their ad-ware

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[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The ads are for their own services though, doubt they're earning any direct profit from advertising their own services.

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[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

It's not beyond the realms of belief that they do, such are the ways of corpo accounting. OS dept could be billing OneDrive dept for the ads to subsidise the OS dev.

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