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It's actually about services. By having services like Xbox music, video, and live come bundled with the system they're trying to increase subscriptions and purc

• shinratdr 14y ago
  Don't forget Office 365.
• notatoad 14y ago
  Most of the 'ads' in windows are actually just promotion of those services, or content available through those services. It's something that every other commercial OS does with their first party apps - iTunes is full of promos for iTunes content. But an article titled 'Windows 8 is about services' doesn't get as many pageviews as 'Windows 8 is about ads'.
  • recoiledsnake 14y ago
    Google "Play: Store does this too just to download an Android app. http://www.androidpipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Download-the-new-Jelly-Bean-Google-Play-Store-version-3.7.11.jpg http://www.androidpipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Downlo...
    • pbhjpbhj 14y ago
      Isn't an app store literally just a wrapper around advertising though. Yes the ads there seem particularly low on instructive content but the rest of Android OS doesn't have advertising like that does it.
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