• @[email protected]
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    6529 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?

    • @[email protected]
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      4929 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.

      • @zipzoopaboop
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        1329 days ago

        I distinctly remember win 10 ignored every single setting I chose in oobe and went to default

    • @[email protected]
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      2029 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…

    • @[email protected]
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      1929 days ago

      But think of the shareholders. They would loose so much money they would probably have to sell their third yacht!

    • Not a replicant
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      829 days ago

      Last time I bought a Win 10 Pro DVD to install on a customer’s machine, it was AUD$195.00. And I still had to use powershell to de-provision some of the bullshit. Better than the Home version (AUD$165.00), at least I can use GPEDIT to disable some “features”.

      Of course, a Windows licence on a pre-built Dell or HP would be a lot less.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 days ago

        Of course you can.

        Linux is great if you’re a software developer and don’t ever plug any hardware in.

        • @[email protected]
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          429 days ago

          Maybe 5-10 years ago, apparently these days driver issues are less of a concern. Plug & play is the norm now, from my experience at least

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      129 days ago

      There is the LTSC version (not sure if 11 is released yet, but 10 definitely is) which is basically debloated windows. Made by Microsoft, and targeted towards embedded devices.