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From: Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS is doomed... any year now
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 08:17:27 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-04-28, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 08:21:54 -0000 (UTC), Simon wrote:
>
>> I know adverts are never going away but if I am paying surely I deserve
>> not have to watch them? As for seeing adverts every time I open the
>> start menu that is just awful.
>
> Microsoft is banking on the fact that most Windows users would rather keep 
> using it and keep complaining about it rather than switch to something 
> else.

Every time MS introduce something new I think surely this is going to be the
tipping point, but you are probably right, this is not going to be enough for
most people, so they don't worry. 

-- 
Simon

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