• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    6 days ago

    What do you think it would cost MS to sell a version of Windows that’s just…an operating system, and not an ad platform? Like Windows XP? Or maybe Windows 10 on day 1?

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
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      6 days ago

      There is no amount that could answer that because the Ad profit is on top of the already existing product. It would always be viewed as a “loss.”

      Not that they’re losing on the cost of operations and development of the OS, but because the ad revenue is in addition to the product…

      Greed fucking greed fucking greed. Greed turtles all the way down…

    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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      6 days ago

      Windows 10 on day 1 was still ‘calling home’ and recommending candy crush in the start menu as I recall. I had to dig into the registry to gut the windows store from it entirely to get windows 10 to act how i want an OS to act. Windows 7 was the last good windows IMO.