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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)
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Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the Settings app.

This will likely arrive in the July update for Windows 11, or at least it’s almost certain to do so. It was present in the latest preview update Microsoft just released for the OS (and quickly paused due to a bug, but that’s another story). It’s also worth noting that the ad has been present in earlier test versions of Windows 11.

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[-] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The thing that irks me the most is that those things work. They'll see a little complain from the most vocal ones, and that's it. The revenue will increase, their shareholders will be pleased, the OS will be worse, and we'll have no viable alternative.

Unless governments start to regulate the hell out of tech companies, it's only downhill from there.

Edit: about Linux, it's not viable if you're outside IT or rely on commercial software. That's a debate for another post.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Regarding Linux, what commercial software are you dependent on? More and more, it's all online, even Office.

[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Autodesk for myself, apparently its super dependant on .net and other windows framework so its not like they are going to make it linux compatible any time soon.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

It looks like it runs perfectly via WINE from a few quick Google searches

[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, ill check it out

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