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I hope this gets them to focus Windows 10 back on corporate uses, or at least giving back some reasonable aspect of control. Candy Crush ads built in to Windows
by orev 9y ago
I hope this gets them to focus Windows 10 back on corporate uses, or at least giving back some reasonable aspect of control. Candy Crush ads built in to Windows Pro is just absurd. MS already lost the mobile war, so they should be focusing on where they really shine, not trying to dumb it down to straddle multiple markets at once.
- tvanantwerp 9y agoI've worked harder to make Windows 10 Enterprise actually useful than for any other version. Lot's of Group Policy and Registry edits are required to strip out the cruft, and even then it often leaves things broken. Windows 10 is the PC equivalent of a crappy Android phone with your carrier's impossible-to-remove bloatware baked into it. Absolutely horrible experience.
- funkymike 9y agoI see ads in Windows 10 Enterprise. Microsoft has conceded to turning Windows into the OS equivalent to browser add-on malware.
- fwgwgwgch 9y ago> malware Source or example of malicious stuff done?
- halbritt 9y agoMost folks consider an operating system showing them unwanted ads to be malicious.
- komali2 9y agoForced update-restart immediately before I gave a presentation, with no warning. Malicious.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoUnless you believe Microsoft intentionally designed the OS to hose your presentation by rebooting right when it believes you are doing one, this is incompetent/bad design, not "malicious" design.
- Karunamon 9y agoLet's compromise and call it "depraved indifference". No update ever made is that important that it needs to boot me out of what I'm doing at the moment. Things like this[1] should not be possible. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP31lluUDWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP31lluUDWU
- komali2 9y agoThat's another thing that bugs the shit out of me, to the point that I made a passive-aggressive bug report out of it: The update process is 3-part, and two parts of them require your input after the first part, if your computer didn't automatically restart. First is the force shutdown "blue screen," which, with no restart, can leave your computer/laptop in a time-bomb "fuck you" state. Woops, forgot that the last time you turned off your computer, it was an update-shutdown? Hahaha, you need it for a presentation in five minutes? Jokes on you, we still have two update screens to go! Then you have the black screen with the circle, and then the blue screens "we are configuring your updates and didn't touch your files". It drives me insane.
- hutattedonmyarm 9y agoWhen I started my current job I was astonished how much bullshit is built into the enterprise edition of Win 10
- RexM 9y agoI have Windows 10 Pro and haven't ever seen an ad. I'm genuinely curious what the difference is between my install and yours.
- maxsilver 9y agoWindows 10 Pro has advertisements in the Login screen background, and the Start Menu -- by default, on every fresh install. Yes, you can turn these advertisements off easily. But considering how much we pay for Pro (~$200), there shouldn't be any advertisements anywhere.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoTo be clear though, these "ads" are solely for Microsoft/Windows features, the most third party they get is being "suggested" apps on the Windows Store. Some people may not perceive them as "ads" (and Microsoft claims they aren't, as laughable as that is), because they are connected to Windows features, you'll never get sent to a third party webpage from these things. And I don't think they're actually paid ads, for either the suggested apps or the rare occasion they've put an "ad" as the lock screen background. They've promoted the Surface on it before, and then for Tomb Raider, I think they were mostly pushing the idea of "hey, you can get games in the Windows Store now", rather than it necessarily being a paid campaign with the game studio.
- mscrivo 9y agoThey put "suggestions" for 3rd party apps right in the start menu. There's no way they're intelligently suggesting those apps either because they pop up almost immediately after a fresh install, and are often about games.
- Nullabillity 9y ago> And I don't think they're actually paid ads, for either the suggested apps or the rare occasion they've put an "ad" as the lock screen background. They've promoted the Surface on it before, and then for Tomb Raider, I think they were mostly pushing the idea of "hey, you can get games in the Windows Store now", rather than it necessarily being a paid campaign with the game studio. So you're saying MS doesn't profit if you buy a Surface or something from the Windows Store?
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI believe the Xbox app is included on Windows Server 2016 as well.
- redial 9y agoMicrosoft is making the same mistake as Apple; they call something Pro but in an effort to appear "not boring" they make it a mass market product that neglects almost entirely the Pro workflow.
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoWindows 2k Pro was an actual workstation OS. It’s a shame that they’ve diluted Pro for the mass market as you’ve stated. The only silver lining is WSL, but it’s a toy at best, not a fully featured POSIX-compliant development environment.
- abakker 9y agoI have a CNC machine that I control from windows. Windows 10 forced a hard shutdown for updates while I was running a job the other day. No notion that the software was running an active program, no observation that active processing and I/O was underway. I HATE windows. It seems to have more irrational and user hostile defaults than any other system. I'm sure that if I were better about it I could craft an image that worked better, and I could disable stupid things, but in a workshop I never want cortana. If I had wanted it, I'd be playing Halo... Windows 7 was fine, but the spammy feature bloat is so frustrating.
- swiley 9y agoIf you're going to bother making an image you might as well just learn buildroot and switch to linux.
- abakker 9y agoI am tied to Mach3 at the moment, which only runs on windows. I've thought about LinuxCNC before, but there seem to be issues supporting my machine. Otherwise, yeah, I would happily be running Linux.
- criddell 9y agoI would love for them to fork Windows into consumer and commercial editions. I used to uninstall the things I want gone, but I've given up. Contacts, maps, money, music, mail, news, weather, and the other bloatware just kept coming back. You can't uninstall stuff like Cortana at all, AFAIK.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoMain reason you currently can't remove Cortana, is because Cortana if you leave the additional features disabled, is just a rebrand of Windows Search, a relatively core OS function. Earlier versions of Windows 10 used to differentiate the two, current versions do not.
- criddell 9y agoI don't think I need Windows Search either. I shut off the indexing service because it was always using 100% of my disk in the performance monitor.