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What a joke. Yes, Windows might show advertisements in the start menu and unbiddenly download & install crapware like Candy Crush, but thank god there's no East
by Aransentin 6y ago
What a joke. Yes, Windows might show advertisements in the start menu and unbiddenly download & install crapware like Candy Crush, but thank god there's no Easter eggs anywhere.
- pugworthy 6y agoJoke perhaps, but consider this was written 16 years ago. Back when none of the "yes but" stuff was around. They would probably say their position "evolved"...
- causality0 6y agoSometimes I wonder how different things would've been if Gates had kept an active role. Would we be using Windows 9 now? Would you not have to spend five minutes doing something you can do in Windows 7 in ten seconds, like adding a shortcut to a folder to your taskbar that actually opens the folder when you click it?
- SavantIdiot 6y agoGo back to 2005, would you have believed "automatically installed ads on your Start Menu" would be anything other than a joke from Futurama? Yet here we are.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoWindows 98 came with ads in Active Desktop
- SavantIdiot 6y agoI stand corrected. I had to google it, and I completely forgot that brief period of chaos where desktop was a web page. Ughhh... At least it was "opt in", which is my feeble attempt at hanging on to my argument that MS is more nefarious now than before. :)
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoWell, they weren't really "ads" - just prepopulated links in the Active Channels list to major media websites. it wasn't just the US with links to Disney, other localized versions of Windows 98 had prepopulated Active Channels to local media companies (e.g. if you set Windows 98 to the UK then you'd get links to Sky and the BBC). I don't think Microsoft was paid to include those links, part of me really thinks the PMs behind the feature just really wanted to show it off and get buy-in from those media companies.