• Betanews: Microsoft is disgustingly sneaky: Windows 10 isn’t an operating system, it’s an advertising platform

    Posted on March 12, 2017 at 12:42 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Mark Wilson just posted an interesting rant on the Betanews site:

    Microsoft is disgustingly sneaky: Windows 10 isn’t an operating system, it’s an advertising platform

    Of course, that won’t come as a revelation to you  folks, but Mark’s to be commended for not pulling any punches.

    If we’re honest, the company is doing nothing more than abusing its position, using Windows 10 to promote its own tools and services, or those with which it has marketing arrangements. Does Microsoft think we’re stupid?

    His tag line struck home for me:

    It’s time for things to change, but will Microsoft listen?

    A chorus I’ve been singing for several decades. The answer, of course, is that Microsoft has no intention of reducing the advertising. Instead, they want to make it more lucrative. Which is understandable, I suppose, when you look at the precipitous revenue drop in non-enterprise Windows 10 fees.

    Tip o’ the hat to MT.

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