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I'm reasonably sure Cortana is what displays the ads on the task bar. I've only seen them on others' home systems. I've absolutely seen ads on my start menu for
by da_chicken 7y ago
I'm reasonably sure Cortana is what displays the ads on the task bar. I've only seen them on others' home systems. I've absolutely seen ads on my start menu for Candy Crush and other MS Store games, but I shut them down with registry tweaks and the like..
> MS sees no practical reason to keep those games free.
It's a removed feature that essentially all users expect to be present. Charging for something like that is a good way to make unhappy customers.
- viraptor 7y agoExactly. It's similar to providing trivial things at work. Don't offer free coffee - meh. Offer free coffee - that's cool. Take away free coffee - the world's ending, are people going to be fired soon? I doubt they'll get more from the game sales than they lost in bad PR. But maybe I'm wrong, I don't do marketing.
- cookie_monsta 7y ago> Charging for something like that is a good way to make unhappy customers. I don't mean to sound snobby but I have the feeling that people who are emotionally invested in playing solitaire on a PC are the ones who are least likely to uninstall windows on favour of Linux or equivalent
- Nextgrid 7y agoThey may very well buy a Mac as their next computer.
- cookie_monsta 7y agoSorry - I should have been more general in my snobbery. I think that hardcore solitaire players are unlikely to want to learn an entirely new OS regardless of who made it