Windows 10: Microsoft Cheapens Windows 10 with Ads

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This was one of the things that MS was obvious aiming for with the W8 series.

Another good reason to stick with W7.

:)

 

changes to phone!!!!

you're wrong. it doesn't cheapen anything, besides it's nothing to do with nokia.



do people not understand that microsoft make the OS, not nokia?

 

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We should be able to know exactly what these Microsoft "updates" are and have to option to reject as necessary .. I now believe the updates are a cheapening of the product, not - improvements .. IMO . A shame that Microsoft is now just a stupid ''bot''.,
a purveyor of ''one way conversations".

 

Mexico is so 3rd world, that we don't get any ads... hoho...
At least... for now...

 

I have not had to deal with it yet. I've had some odd Spam apps but removed em and all is well.
As for Windows 10 being pushed and rushed out to production and mainstream:
I AGREE! I think that's the reason that some of these updates are sometimes hurting peoples systems. is it still in beta currently? I'm not fully connected into the Microsoft news feed.
Another thing I wanted to add was that I think it's not cool, Microsoft to be pushing; folks into upgrading when they did not want to at the time/or in the future. My girlfriends laptop was ruined recently due to this. She loves windows 8.1 and how stuff is. She kept declining for the upgrade. Then one day..out of the blue.. her windows 8, decided BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH on her. It was as if, because she did not feel comfortable with upgrading to windows 10. The next windows 8 update, secretly kills her system. I purchased that as a birthday gift last year.... when this took place it was still on the 2 year warranty! So, 4000$ Laptop is dead! Ugh...why so mean Microsoft?, you hurt her her laptop and my bank! We should have sued for emotional distress... <--JOKE.

 

I've turned off most of the ads. And I really dont see many ads. Just one in solitaire. I think MS is late in the game in ads just like they were on phones.

 

Yeah your right and windows phones are.. trash, sorry. Other then that love windows! Even after hearing about ads. Just hope they don't leave Win 7 out in the cold like they did XP.

 

Microsoft supported Windows XP from August 2001 to April 2014. 13 years. Windows 7 is scheduled from July 2009 to January 2020 - 11 years. So, just curious... how long is Microsoft supposed to keep supporting an OS before it is not considered "left out in the cold"? 20 years? 50 years?

 

This is one thing I noticed that was exponentially worse with the anniversary edition than with the edition that I had installed. Also the anniversary edition blocks out several entries in the action center where you can shut off various nags about certain system events. And the nature of the notifications in windows 10 sometimes interferes when you're working, with a damned full-page nag. It's bad enough when my android devices do this, you kind of expected it there, but on windows, I've always viewed windows as part of my living room, and I choose whether or not my television will show commercials (By totally canceling all digital tv services) and by setting up my computers without any shareware or crapware that depends on advertising. It has also become exponentially more difficult to install any third-party helper apps like for instance even Java without being graced with a forced installation of the virus strewn ask toolbar.

I have always been one to choose which updates I want to install, and when I want to install them. Windows 8.0 has been the last operating system that ever allowed me to do this.

I was excited about windows 10: I installed it, and I thought "this looks great", played with it for two months and realized there is no good way to avoid the forced updates. And even though their feedback board is full of complaints about this issue (just about everybody that posts in the feedback area wants them to kill the forced updates and put it back the way that it was), instead of listening to their customer base like they did with Vista, they are simply making it worse and worse.

What the hell is Bill Gates thinking? For years Microsoft has always pretty much conceded to its user base, but Windows 7 was the last time that they actually did what people have been asking. Windows 8 was foisted on us with a basically unwanted tablet interface and non-skeumorphic graphics.

They could've simply made a totally separate operating system for their tablet devices and that would've been fine, but they had to do an all in one. So what did they do when nobody liked it that much? They made windows 10.

 

50 years sound reasonable for me :V

 

Sadly, Bll seems to not be taking part of this anymore, this sude, Satya "Nutella" seems to be the one taking this path of weird choices.
But well... we can always disable windows updates, right? That's what I do since XP era, only install critical patches, vuala!

 

The only ad I get and can't get rid of is this, EVERY SINGLE TIME I open Cortana*Mad:




I don't own a smart phone, and hopefully, never will.
I have, everything to do with ads, turned off, and do not get any others.
Cortana tips are off too.
I know what I'm doing(usually anyhow*092)
I have even started a thread about it in Feedback Hub: Error - Windows Insider Program

 

As for cortana being on a smartphone, this is why I love android! I have her on my PC but she's never given an ad, like intentionally that is. I mean I'd open her for like reminders or weather/traffic things of that nature but never any ads or spam suggestions at all. Must be at random.

 

Cortana lists my Moto X Play as incompatible.

That being said, I don't remember getting any ads...