The engineer assumes far too much good faith by Microsoft. He focuses on the idea that Windows was built for casual users and the online vocal power users that want to stretch the normal use of the system don’t like how their strange choices are handled and yell online setting the narrative. His advice boils down to, 'give a power user mode that lets you control the telemetry, turns off ads and searches in your start menu, lets you boot without an online account, bundle all OEM installed apps in one bundle, respecting changing defaults like web browser." Like, sweetheart, I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this, Microsoft didn’t stumble backwards into including ads and locking out offline accounts, they are incentivized to be shit like this.
He suggests in addition to buying windows it having a monthly fee for this pro mode to allow for such freedoms, “because they can’t just give windows away forever hoping to make it up on OneDrive fees.” Cool, I’d rather stick to linux, thanks.
Well Windows sales might, but that’s why you gotta pay for pro mode that removes all the ad shit. Otherwise they would lose out on the additional 2/5 or whatever that comes from their ad-ware
It’s not beyond the realms of belief that they do, such are the ways of corpo accounting. OS dept could be billing OneDrive dept for the ads to subsidise the OS dev.
The engineer assumes far too much good faith by Microsoft. He focuses on the idea that Windows was built for casual users and the online vocal power users that want to stretch the normal use of the system don’t like how their strange choices are handled and yell online setting the narrative. His advice boils down to, 'give a power user mode that lets you control the telemetry, turns off ads and searches in your start menu, lets you boot without an online account, bundle all OEM installed apps in one bundle, respecting changing defaults like web browser." Like, sweetheart, I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this, Microsoft didn’t stumble backwards into including ads and locking out offline accounts, they are incentivized to be shit like this.
He suggests in addition to buying windows it having a monthly fee for this pro mode to allow for such freedoms, “because they can’t just give windows away forever hoping to make it up on OneDrive fees.” Cool, I’d rather stick to linux, thanks.
Now thid is clearly bullshit. What makes Windows sales again, barely 1/5 of the company’s cloud business?
Well Windows sales might, but that’s why you gotta pay for pro mode that removes all the ad shit. Otherwise they would lose out on the additional 2/5 or whatever that comes from their ad-ware
The ads are for their own services though, doubt they’re earning any direct profit from advertising their own services.
It’s not beyond the realms of belief that they do, such are the ways of corpo accounting. OS dept could be billing OneDrive dept for the ads to subsidise the OS dev.