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I believe the new licensing of Windows 11 is similar to what you suggest. The so called free edition is adware, whereas the paid license has less. MS made big i

I believe the new licensing of Windows 11 is similar to what you suggest. The so called free edition is adware, whereas the paid license has less. MS made big investments in Xandr and OpenAI. With all the rich data they can glean from their properties, they could become the new king of ad tech.

actionfromafar 4y ago
The Corporate, Policy version has no ads.
- hef19898 4y ago
  What ever it was called the day, this was the only Windows version to get since at least Windows NT. Everytime I see something other than a commercial Windows, I am at shock of what it looks like. And I'm already shocked by the difference between commercial Windows 10 and Ubuntu. By now, so, I accepted the fact that I am a technological Luddite who is stuck in the early 2000s and doesn't want to move a secind forward. On software that is, I take new processors and graphic cards in a heart beat. And RAM, anf mainboards...
  - yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
    > By now, so, I accepted the fact that I am a technological Luddite who is stuck in the early 2000s and doesn't want to move a secind forward. On software that is, I take new processors and graphic cards in a heart beat. And RAM, anf mainboards... To quote somebody on a forum I read: > It's not that I hate new things. It's just that all new things are objectively terrible.
JohnFen 4y ago
> the paid license has less That should be zero. Not that my opinion matters, as I only use Windows because I'm forced to at work, where it regularly costs me a lot of time (I lost 5 hours of my workday yesterday because of a Windows update that went sideways.) I bailed on it on my personal machines a couple of decades(!) ago.
the_third_wave 4y ago
> they could become the new king of ad tech. ...which is truly a doom scenario seeing how as this business turned a company which had "do no evil" as its motto into a data-hungry parasite. Microsoft more or less starts off where Google ended up so it won't be long until Redmond, WA will be disgraced by a black tower with a flaming eye in it if this is to be the future.

actionfromafar 4y ago

The Corporate, Policy version has no ads.

hef19898 4y ago
What ever it was called the day, this was the only Windows version to get since at least Windows NT. Everytime I see something other than a commercial Windows, I am at shock of what it looks like. And I'm already shocked by the difference between commercial Windows 10 and Ubuntu. By now, so, I accepted the fact that I am a technological Luddite who is stuck in the early 2000s and doesn't want to move a secind forward. On software that is, I take new processors and graphic cards in a heart beat. And RAM, anf mainboards...
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  > By now, so, I accepted the fact that I am a technological Luddite who is stuck in the early 2000s and doesn't want to move a secind forward. On software that is, I take new processors and graphic cards in a heart beat. And RAM, anf mainboards... To quote somebody on a forum I read: > It's not that I hate new things. It's just that all new things are objectively terrible.

JohnFen 4y ago

> the paid license has less That should be zero. Not that my opinion matters, as I only use Windows because I'm forced to at work, where it regularly costs me a lot of time (I lost 5 hours of my workday yesterday because of a Windows update that went sideways.) I bailed on it on my personal machines a couple of decades(!) ago.

the_third_wave 4y ago

> they could become the new king of ad tech. ...which is truly a doom scenario seeing how as this business turned a company which had "do no evil" as its motto into a data-hungry parasite. Microsoft more or less starts off where Google ended up so it won't be long until Redmond, WA will be disgraced by a black tower with a flaming eye in it if this is to be the future.