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I once would have agreed with you, but the advertisements and pushiness in Windows are simply unacceptable at this point.


Given that I have not paid for Windows in almost 2 decades, I am okay with a little bit of advertising.

All of my Windows PCs just work. And I can stick pretty much any hardware and they just work.

I can't say the say for any of the Apple devices that my friends own, all of whom have had to have them replaced at some point.


The EU is fixing that as well - we'll soon see the privacy version of Win 11 launched in the EU as well.


That's cool and all, but I either can wait for that to happen or not happen (which is not a certainty), or I can just use macOS (or a flavor of Linux).

Sure, the EU will fix things like they've managed to do in the past with other internet-related stuff (e.g., cookie notices). And I will definitely re-evaluate this take once things change in terms of ads for Windows. But until that happens, I don't see "the EU will fix that" as a valid point in favor of Windows.


The ability to disable the "news" panel is already in preview, it will be released by march

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/wind...


That’s nice, what about those OneDrive and Microsoft365 ads they added in an update last year?


This is the problem. Microsoft does not have a strong product function in Windows so no one can push back on this bullshit in the first place.




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