Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You pay for the privilege of getting ads beamed directly to your desktop

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• Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, we’ve had first payment…

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  • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “We’ve had one payment, yes. What about second payment?”

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    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1000009716

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    • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about windows elevensies?

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I paid for 10.

  Which is why I never enabled TPM on my motherboard. I didn’t pay for 11. I do not want 11.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I paid for 7 and upgraded it to 10. I may go to 12 later on (Windows alternates between solid and awful, so 12 may be fine) but it’s also quite likely I’ll wind up moving to a Linux distro as my primary and keeping Win10 as a fallback.

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did anyone pay for 11?

  Microsoft has been giving it free left and right.

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  • archomrade@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone paid for a windows os, but they’ve been forcing upgrades for what I assume are completely unrelated reasons

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The reason being that uninformed users didn’t update at all and then blamed Microsoft.

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      • archomrade@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        … and they’re discontinuing support for windows 10…

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did. I was naive and had just built a gaming pc. 10 was no longer for sale

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• praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it’s safe to say that over 99% of custom built pc doesn’t run on proper windows license

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  • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where did you come up with that figure? I have two PCs and they have two separate licenses. One is custom built and the other was prebuilt.

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    • sfgifz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty much everyone I know has a pirated copy unless it’s in an enterprise setting or pre-installed with the hardware.

      Been the case since Windows 98, might be longer too.

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      • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why would anyone pirate Windows and risk malware? You can download it for free straight from Microsoft, and you can just skip the product key step during installation, it works without a key just fine.

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    • praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I came up with that figure knowing that there are much more 3rd world country people who can’t afford proper PC let alone windows license.

      Honestly, considering China/India, I think my figure has to go higher than not.

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      • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So you guessed? You don’t have any kind of way of confirming that figure? I see 37% from some studies. Microsoft itself has monetary estimates but no percentages of stolen software.

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  • femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even if that’s true, custome pcs are a tiny fraction of client computing, oem desktops and especially laptops completely own client computing, most people only ever get a laptop

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    • praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is why I specifically mentioned custom built pc

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      • femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t understand then, if you know that they are relatively rare, then why do they matter to the discussion at hand?

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• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t pay for the OS.

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