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Imagine the goodwill Microsoft could garner with advanced users if this was a simple mouse click during the installation. Advanced Install > Minimal Install
by blantonl 3y ago
Imagine the goodwill Microsoft could garner with advanced users if this was a simple mouse click during the installation.
Advanced Install > Minimal Install
- sokoloff 3y agoHow much is the goodwill of those advanced users worth (incrementally over today) compared to the rev-share and advertising dollars they’d lose by regular users choosing this after watching a YouTube or two? Yeah, I’d like it, but it’s not hard to see why Microsoft doesn’t want to offer it.
- mschuster91 3y agoIt would cost them too much money. Everyone is in for rent seeking these days... back in ye olde days (aka early '00s) you could actually buy operating systems or software, and you could keep using them virtually forever if you were fine that after a year or two you wouldn't get any bugfixes, and no new features at all. Nowadays, people simply don't have the money to shell out hundreds of dollars for Windows, Office or the Adobe Suite (the CS6 Master Collection was like what, 8.000$?) any more, and so it's cheaper on paper for everyone to either have subscription models (like Adobe or MS Office) or "freemium" models (Windows). Obviously Microsoft has to make up the difference in income somehow, and they chose to go the advertising route. Offering an easy way to get rid of all the invasive advertising and tracking would kill that golden goose.
- izacus 3y agoThat's the Microsoft which will kick you back into setup wizard on every major update and try to reset default browser, search and document editing apps to Edge/Bing/Office-Outlook?