Comment on Why does Microsoft want me to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Advertising. They want to embed advertising to generate more revenue.
Comment on Why does Microsoft want me to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Advertising. They want to embed advertising to generate more revenue.
ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Boringly, this seems to be the consensus. I actually don’t give a fuck. Advertising doesn’t bother me on the red-hot-rage level that it bothers some people. I am under no obligation to buy anything, just because I’ve seen an ad.
Also, if ads support Windows being gratis, that’s basically okay with me. Having to drop substantial money on operating systems wasn’t fun.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This is completely off topic but have you ever actually bought an OS? The last one my family paid for with cash was GeoWorks.
ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
My dude, the first operating system I bought was MS-DOS 6.22. I went miles and miles out of my way, because there was a community college in my area that was (possibly crookedly) selling it to people with the student discount, even if they weren’t students. I have forgotten the exact details, because of all the intervening years.
Then I got Windows 3.1 pre-installed on several machines, then bought the Windows 95 upgrade package, then Windows 98, then XP, then a machine that already had ME, then one that already had Vista, then I bought 7, then I bought 10. They were all annoyingly expensive.