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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)

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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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