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Not Microsoft, thats for sure.
by dana321 8y ago
Not Microsoft, thats for sure.
- rayiner 8y agoMicrosoft still largely operates by you paying it money in return for software and services. Hell of a step up.
- s17n 8y agoThat's because it's an enterprise company. Consumers won't pay for software.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoHasn't seemed to discourage them from vacuuming up information and handing it to the NSA.
- dmitriy_ko 8y agoYou can use Windows 10 for free with no limitations.
- freehunter 8y agoWindows is far from the only product Microsoft makes.
- ac29 8y agoNot legally.
- kgwxd 8y agoPaying for things does not stop ads, telemetry, and various other malware from being part of a product. Microsoft is a prime example.
- telemetry_is_ok 8y agoTelemetry is not really a problem except to the paranoid. Not only is it anonymized, it's very useful. It helps provide essential data for bug fixes, especially for an OS and application software that rely so much on not breaking backwards compatibility.
- coffekaesque 8y ago> Telemetry is not really a problem except to the paranoid. How can you call anyone paranoid after all that we learned in the past decade? > Not only is it anonymized Oh so that's why Microsoft uses a hash of your mac address in multiple products. To make it more anonymous. I'm sure your unique advertisement id is also very important and efivars are only used to make sure your activation is legit.
- Waterluvian 8y agoThere's really nothing more offensive than buying a product and seeing ads show up months or years later. That should be illegal.
- dewiz 8y agoLike cable tv and streaming right?
- dyarosla 8y agoI’m seeing this in other businesses too. Hell- some airlines now run ads on their inflight tv systems right after their safety videos. You, as a passenger who has paid their fare for a flight, must sit still, strapped in, and watch an ad on a screen straight ahead of yo, with sound playing through the cabin, with no way to opt out. Ads are a disease.
- dyarosla 8y agoI’m seeing this in other businesses too. Hell- some airlines now run ads on their inflight tv systems right after their safety videos. You, as a passenger who has paid their fare for a flight, must sit still, strapped in, and watch an ad on a screen straight ahead of you, with sound playing through the cabin, with no way to opt out. Ads are a disease.
- Marsymars 8y ago> You, as a passenger who has paid their fare for a flight, must sit still, strapped in, and watch an ad on a screen straight ahead of you, with sound playing through the cabin, with no way to opt out. If someone in the seat next to me decided to opt out by colouring over their screen with a sharpie, I would not stop them.
- Xorlev 8y agoBased on their handling of marketing Edge right in my task bar, I'm pretty skeptical it'd be a step up in any sense of the term.
- myrryr 8y agoThey did that back during the Halloween papers, and their embrace, extend, extinguish phase, and funding the SCO court case. Operating by "us paying them" doesn't stop them doing a lot worse than google has ever done.