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Microsoft now testing app ads in Windows 11's Start menu (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] KvasiroftheWoods@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And I thank them for finally pushing me to fully adopt Linux as my main OS, although they did that months ago when I 'upgraded' to Windows 10 and my frustrations with Windows began (8.1 wasn't to bad really). This just seals the deal.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

8.1 was peak windows.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

7*

8 was all sorts of weird and clunky in the ui

[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where I work we have brand new Media Servers for a 4 beamers video wall running on W7 - software vendor says it's the last "unobtrusive" windows that just does what it is told to do. Remote control is via whatever, but the servers are 7 and will stay so. VNC'ing into those is quite the time travel.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

its getting dangerous to have these connected to the internet though

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that’s a …. Interesting choice running a video wall with windows 7 in 2024

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

yeah i dont understand why these use cases arent on linux

[–] misanthropy@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

I have one client still running a server 2003 connected to the internet, lol.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I didn’t say 8, I said 8.1

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Personally I feel like Windows has been progressively getting worse after it peaked at Windows 2000.

Unless of course you're willing to expend the effort to set up Windows Server as a desktop and put up with the limitations you get there.