I was bored at work so chatted with Microsoft support about this.

Summary of funny part

Me: no, it's an advertisement, asking me to try a Microsoft product. The ad came through my message tray. I have all ad services turned off.

Them: that's not an ad, that's recommendation for a better service

Me: are you aware that you just described an advertisement?

Them: yes.

Lmao is that a Lemmy watermark? 💀

I've been on Linux for a while but this shit is starting to make my wife ask about switching over. Which is something I never thought I'd see.

Actually its their🇺🇸. Not your, not our. Its their own and you arr kinda like renting it

It’s been downhill since Windows 7. I think this will be my last Windows PC.

I just don’t feel safe with Windows that next time I boot up there won’t be some fresh horror I didn’t ask for and have to go research how to put back in the bottle.

It’s like having your computer pre-rooted with malware.

Microsoft: advertises to increase profits like a good capitalist

People: "Is this communism?"

Yes, being comoditized by a corporation. True socialism comrade. Truly we've seized the means of production.

Install Linux, problem resolved.

Friends don't let friends drive windows.

The first thing you would do after browsing lemmy would be installing linux because there are many foss enthusiasist and linux users playing around here in lemmy making you switch to linux

Only linux is "ours"

If there's one thing communists love it's advertising. In fact Don Draper is a socialist icon alongside Stalin and Coco Chanel.

That’s in fact why I’m a linux user now

I think you'll find it is no longer "My Computer" but now "This PC"

Aaayyy, comrade.

Thank you for dowloading the correct OS, Our Windows.

Oppression breeds rebellion, why relying on a software you have zero control over, that the company that owns it respects you so litle that they pre install adware and spyware, learn to use Linux or BSD, you don't have to use it all the time, but learn the basics, understand how this machine you use so much works, seize that litle piece of freedom back, and even if you choose to use windows again, after knowing more of how things work, you will be more able to force it in working your way.

I swear to god if I have to remove Bing search bar from my desktop one more time...

I've got a worse one. I was using Windows in a VM the other day and got an ad for Xbox controllers. Basically "check out our new controller colors, click on this notification to go buy one."

Sorry to say it, but Windows never was your operating system. It was always Microsoft's. You're just allowed to use it. You just bought a permit.

My absolute most hated one is when signing in and using a two factor Authenticator. If you don’t use the Microsoft one. Every time you log in it “recommends” you to use their own. Fuck off.

Before anyone says go Linux. This is a work comp. I use Linux and Mac at home.

What ads? That's just a friendly and helpful product reminder

When you install windows ypu can set timezone to "world" and it will not be there...

You can also avoid making a microsoft account (or logging in) if you log innusing a@a.com and any password.

Then it will say something went wrong but you can continue, by making an offline account

Isn't it suspicious how hard they've been pushing "clipchamp"? Like it's probably full of telemetry or something.

Yeah, being forced to sit through unskippable ads in order to even just play solitaire is real special. And even if you close the program and restart your PC, the ads are still right there waiting for you to watch before you can continue with your game. This is probably going to be my last Windows machine.