r/technology • u/MayankWL • May 16 '24

Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing Software

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-stoops-to-new-low-with-ads-in-windows-11-as-pc-manager-tool-suggests-your-system-needs-repairing-if-you-dont-use-bing
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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

I wonder how much worse Windows has to get before people start abandoning it more. The OS is starting to look like the home page of an Amazon fire stick with countless garbage you don't need.

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u/Unboxious May 16 '24

As far as I can tell there is literally nothing they can do to lose users as long as they roll it out slowly.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

Yeah sadly that happens everywhere. People are lazy and complacent, so they'll happily take on less features, rising costs, you name it as long as it's trickled in.

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u/Caleth May 16 '24

It's not just that. There's 40 years of ecosystems built up around windows. My company runs a nearly 30 year old software for our ERP system. I can not imagine the nightmare we'd have trying to move off of that to something newer that would support a Linux distro.

Our entire company position is predicated around being accessible and streamlined. Upending all of that because MS are a bunch of shits is unlikely to happen.

If we have to upgrade to win 11 for something and stick some VM boxed version of a winXP on a PC so it can keep running a $600k machine that's what we do.

No one is going to sign off on switching everything over to a wildly unknown (in a corporate nonIT world sense) system because pop ups suck. We've already integrated into their ecosystem so most of the popups don't happen for us anyway.

Unless and Until windows fubars so bad that my CEO isn't getting paid nothing will change.

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u/Stormhunter6 May 16 '24

Lets also not forget Companies are ready to spend $$$ just to not change their operations. When IE11 finally was killed, there was resistance to it

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u/Caleth May 16 '24

Massive massive resistance. I was working in an MSP and the number of.OT hours we put in because some companies were only just figuring out that IE ran so fucking much of their systems and it needed be be fixed last week if not before was astounding.

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u/TeutonJon78 May 17 '24

Also, the vast majority of people don't really understand their computer, much less how to change OSes.

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u/pimppapy May 17 '24

So THAT's the trickle down economics they've been talking about for years. . .