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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by mikhailt on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:50PM (#18132162)
> Re advertisements in the start menu: They shouldn't be there in the first place, but you CAN disable them. https://www.groovypost.com/howto/turn-off-windows-10-start-m....

And every major Windows update have undo my setting to bring it back. I've reported it to MS, MS attempted to fix it (listed in some Windows 10 update) and they're still failing to fix it.

How about not doing it in the first place, period?

These things should be opt-in, not opt-out.

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by misterprime on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @05:38PM (#18135046)
Wow, how annoying. I've turned them off and they've stayed off over several updates. Glad I'm not experiencing that issue. Sorry for you.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @04:04PM (#18134315)
The problem is that Microsoft no longer views Windows users as customers, but as cattle to feed ads to and harvest data from.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by majewsky on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:47AM (#18138430)
> The problem is that most of the IT industry no longer views users as customers, but as cattle to feed ads to and harvest data from.

FTFY

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by dragonwriter on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:53AM (#18138463)
In both cases the views are largely correct; end users aren't the main or motivating purchasers for lots of the industry, their employers are, so the users literally are not the customers, and often have interests poorly aligned with the actual customers.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by greenhatman on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:26AM (#18138606)
Why I love Linux more every day.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:47AM (#18140364)
Linux's incentives are also not oriented towards the user, unfortunately, they just don't have the profit motive to treat users like cattle.
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