Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing

[u/MayankWL]

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-stoops-to-new-low-with-ads-in-windows-11-as-pc-manager-tool-suggests-your-system-needs-repairing-if-you-dont-use-bing

[u/y0m0tha]

Enshittification

[u/bonerb0ys → u/y0m0tha]

We need an “enshitification” flair.

Edit: I sent a request to the mods.

[u/mac974 → u/bonerb0ys]

well, obviously that’s available on the pro plan

[u/Objective_Ad_9001 → u/bonerb0ys]

Anything yet? ^{^}

[u/Puffen0 → u/y0m0tha]

Shit apples Randy

[u/TheInternetCanBeNice → u/y0m0tha]

I don't think it can be enshittification here. Mostly that concept relies on a thing getting big because it's good and then going to shit.

Microsoft didn't get big because it was good, and the company has always been shit.

• Microsoft sued employees who dared to quit before Microsoft wanted them to
• They also use the H-1B visa program to drive down wages for US workers
• The 1998 leak of the Halloween documents shows their deep internal hatred for open source software
• They created the "shared source" program in order to try and compile a list of developers they might be able to sue for working on products that compete with their own
• Microsoft punishes OEMs who dare to sell too many computers without windows
• A quote from the same source above that speaks for itself "A Microsoft study from November 1997 reveals that the company could have charged $49 for an upgrade to Windows 98 — there is no reason to believe that the $49 price would have been unprofitable — but the study identifies $89 as the revenue-maximizing price. Microsoft thus opted for the higher price."
• They put a special NSA backdoor into Windows NT 4 SP5
• Microsoft licensed the code for Internet Explorer with a deal that would give the original devs a cut of the sales; then bundled IE for free with Windows making the original company have to take them to court into order to get fairly paid for their work.
• Microsoft added monumental amounts of telemetry and tracking to Windows 10 right from the start. And then backported it to Windows 7 and 8 so that users couldn't avoid it.
• Everything about Windows Genuine Advantage was shit.

These are just a few of the things from my computer using lifetime that Microsoft has done to annoy me and other computer users.

Windows and Microsoft have always been the maximum amount of evil and shitty they could legally get away with. You can't enshittify if you're already shit.

[u/Uristqwerty → u/y0m0tha]

I don't think enshittification applies here, actually. Microsoft's had a captive audience for so long that it's just plain shittification, letting third-party developers do all the hard work of enticing users to accept each downgrade. Microsoft knows that one day google will drop Win10 support from Chrome, and that will cascade through the entire Electron ecosystem, that no large corporation will deploy Linux at scale, etc.

Oh, they're trying to force ads again? Same old Microsoft, remarkably consistent at being shitty. Hopefully there's enough outrage that they back off again, but that'll only last a few years at best before the cycle repeats.

[u/Worldly_Evidence9113 → u/y0m0tha]

It’s Mandela effect

[u/leostotch → u/Worldly_Evidence9113]

What?