Lots of people will spend a few hours then several tens of minutes monthly or so finding out how and then disabling the ads after each update
Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
In total, I expect this to cost about a minute or two of my life if they never remove the ads. This figure is fairly typical for daily windows users, of which ~400kk are on win11. Microsoft will steal ~1.5*400,000,000 minutes with these ads. Ads that nearly no one will even consider click. 600,000,000 minutes=10,000,000 hours=1140 years. Multiple lifetimes in aggregate, all to be thrown away for nothing. I’d like to send a very strongly worded knot tying tutorial to Satya Nadella and Brad Smith.
psud@lemmy.world 6 months ago
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Now figure out how much that is in lost revenue and write a headline like „Microsoft to loose economy one million gazzillion $“.
Kelly@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You can be sure this is retail only.
Enterprise Windows won’t have this feature and now appears to have added value for corporate customers.
ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That why I pay my gold partner friend for a copy of enterprise he gives to his developers.