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Re:Windows 11 Start menu ads look set to get even worse – th... by justinclift on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:04AM (#35624431)
> ... and there's nothing you can do about it.

Except - like with the car examples above - eventually customers get pissed off or frustrated enough to switch to a different OS (or car manufacturer).

Thus Apple and Linux distro's picking up a lot of ex-windows users. KDE plays well to this audience. :)

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Re:Windows 11 Start menu ads look set to get even worse – th... by cduzz on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:59AM (#35626674)
The executive in charge of that strategy, by then, will have moved on to Google.

Also, likely microsoft has realized there's zero long term revenue in operating systems -- you'll have been forced to move all your data to their Office 365 environment and will be paying them rent regardless of if you use a windows or a mac or a linux or an oracle desktop.

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Re:Windows 11 Start menu ads look set to get even worse – th... by qikInNdOutReply on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @07:38AM (#35626928)
I think valve did there part to remove one large reason to stay on windows.

I think if steam decks gets a good linux desktop, similar to windows in look and feel, that can be run on a desktop, parallel to windows. Its over, very suddenly, very brutal.

And here it is: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/download?ver=steamdec...

A challenger appears. He is unburdened by the need to advertise. Its super effective.

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