Windows 10: Microsoft Cheapens Windows 10 with Ads

I had to work hard to get my W7 to upgrade to W8, just wouldn't even offer it. Finally downloaded it when it was released but in the mean time I was testing W8 since alpha as dual boot with 7. Then came W10 and not even then it was offered to me. Installed W7 again and it offered it to upgrade to 10 but wouldn't go thru. Brought back my W8 (at that time already 8.1 and upgraded to 10 manually. Ever since then it's been running almost trouble free with every single insider version.
Apart from some APPs that are add supported, I haven't got a single add.
My Lumia 640ds is not getting any either but it's not on internet all the time, just turn on WiFi when needed or jump on internet over second SIM which is 3G.

 

I am sick of ads, which I skip as fast as I can. One of the main culprits on my pc is a local newspaper. They give you a link to a story which I want to do an online comment on, and it goes to a video ad, followed by streams of ads interlaced with the text. By the time I find the story, I've forgotten what I wanted to say anyway, so close it. I can tolerate inobtrusive ads, but surely Microsoft makes enough money from sales and support. They don't need to bombard us with even more ads. I just wish someone somewhere would make a viable alternative to windows, inject some competition into the one sided market.

 

I think the implication was that Microsoft would not officially abandon MSW7, but would push it to such a low priority they might as well have abandoned it.

 

I use W10 in pretty much the same way as I did with Vista, W7 and latterly W8.1 (which was effectively killed by MS with all the W10 update stuff) and now W10 Pro. Apart from having the news, money and weather tiles pinned to the start menu (the only so called apps I use) I am never aware of any ads whatsoever apart from being nagged to try Office which appears as a notification every so often.

What I'm getting at is that W10 used purely as an old fashioned operating system like W7 etc is just fine in my experience. Ads... what ads ?

As to how long will/would/should MS support W10, well I think the answer to that will be in ever changing and improving technology. To make use of what is undoubtedly around the corner will require something as far removed as W10 is from Windows 98. So in my opinion W10 will not run for very long before something new is on the horizon.

 

@Mooly, uninstall the Get Office app, and they will go away.

 

I agree, that is my experience too.... and just uninstall Get Office app and that notification goes away as well.

 

ahhhh c'mon!
Do these ads make Windows look cheap?(Thread title can be understood in a different way*YouTube video player

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naughty cliff putting ads on Win 10 forum - ow! gerrof I am joking!

 

load win 10 start menu, right click on box and select unpin or uninstall

 

actually the ads are for when Microsoft starts charging for windows 10 if you want your copy to remain a free version. as long as you pay for your copy no ads. now windows store apps are a different story. but most of us do not bother with the windows store. myself i only use accuweather from the store and the 2 times a day i open it i can deal with the ad across the top. as for the rest of the apps that do come with 10 i just uninstall them all.

 

Would not be so bad if the OS was free but its not. Unlike most other OS out there.

 

I have been using Windows 10 Pro since it came out and I have not noticed any ads from MS. I do not use any aps from the windows store...just flow-blown applications. Maybe that is why I have not noticed any ads.

 

Get Office app is now uninstalled *Smile that was easy, thanks everyone.

 

I have Office 365 Home and the darned thing kept popping up every so often, until I nuked it.