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[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In total, I expect this to cost about a minute or two of my life if they never remove the ads. This figure is fairly typical for daily windows users, of which ~400kk are on win11. Microsoft will steal ~1.5*400,000,000 minutes with these ads. Ads that nearly no one will even consider clicking. 600,000,000 minutes=10,000,000 hours=1140 years. Multiple lifetimes in aggregate, all to be thrown away for nothing. I’d like to send a very strongly worded knot tying tutorial to Satya Nadella and Brad Smith.

[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Now figure out how much that is in lost revenue and write a headline like „Microsoft to lose economy one million gazzillion $“.

[-] Kelly@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

lost revenue

You can be sure this is retail only.

Enterprise Windows won't have this feature and now appears to have added value for corporate customers.

[-] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

That why I pay my gold partner friend for a copy of enterprise he gives to his developers.

[-] psud@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Lots of people will spend a few hours then several tens of minutes monthly or so finding out how and then disabling the ads after each update

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