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Right "Accident". I'm sure the ads on the W10 start menu were an accident as well. http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10s-start-menu-to-d

Right "Accident". I'm sure the ads on the W10 start menu were an accident as well. http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10s-start-menu-to-display-ads/ http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10... I think Microsoft is trying to earn more money by forcing upgrades to Windows 10 and then displaying ads on the start menu and other places. It is the pot of frogs in water, they slowly turn up the heat so the frogs won't notice until it is too late.

WorldMaker 11y ago
The "ads" are an opt-in recommendation feature of the Store and/or Cortana. They don't directly make money for Microsoft. (Microsoft still gets its Store cut if you actually buy one of the suggested apps, but it wants Suggested Apps to be a useful, personalized recommender, not a paid featured spot...) If the forced Windows 10 upgrades were not an accident, it wasn't to make money. If anything it would be an attempt to save money and have fewer people on older operating systems that they need to support. If there's a "grand conspiracy" afoot, it should be pretty transparent and obvious by now: Microsoft doesn't want people stuck on the same version of Windows for a decade again (XP).
- sliverstorm 11y ago
  Microsoft doesn't want people stuck on the same version of Windows for a decade again And a more evil conspiracy, I cannot imagine. :)
  - WorldMaker 11y ago
    Debian LTS, as one example, is Five Years. It's hard not to sympathize with Microsoft that historically maybe their support contracts have been too friendly, compared with the competition. :) I think most of us wish we can keep our tech debt/maintenance relationships below a decade. (At least, those of us that are not yet dinosaurs like IBM.)
- Teckla 11y ago
  The "ads" are an opt-in recommendation feature of the Store and/or Cortana. On my Windows 10 machine, the "recommendations" were enabled by default. And they sure look/behave like advertisements to me.
hockeybias 11y ago
Puhleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaase.

WorldMaker 11y ago

The "ads" are an opt-in recommendation feature of the Store and/or Cortana. They don't directly make money for Microsoft. (Microsoft still gets its Store cut if you actually buy one of the suggested apps, but it wants Suggested Apps to be a useful, personalized recommender, not a paid featured spot...) If the forced Windows 10 upgrades were not an accident, it wasn't to make money. If anything it would be an attempt to save money and have fewer people on older operating systems that they need to support. If there's a "grand conspiracy" afoot, it should be pretty transparent and obvious by now: Microsoft doesn't want people stuck on the same version of Windows for a decade again (XP).

sliverstorm 11y ago
Microsoft doesn't want people stuck on the same version of Windows for a decade again And a more evil conspiracy, I cannot imagine. :)
- WorldMaker 11y ago
  Debian LTS, as one example, is Five Years. It's hard not to sympathize with Microsoft that historically maybe their support contracts have been too friendly, compared with the competition. :) I think most of us wish we can keep our tech debt/maintenance relationships below a decade. (At least, those of us that are not yet dinosaurs like IBM.)
Teckla 11y ago
The "ads" are an opt-in recommendation feature of the Store and/or Cortana. On my Windows 10 machine, the "recommendations" were enabled by default. And they sure look/behave like advertisements to me.

hockeybias 11y ago

Puhleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaase.