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.
Now figure out how much that is in lost revenue and write a headline like „Microsoft to lose economy one million gazzillion $“.
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.
That why I pay my gold partner friend for a copy of enterprise he gives to his developers.
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
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.
Now figure out how much that is in lost revenue and write a headline like „Microsoft to lose economy one million gazzillion $“.
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.
That why I pay my gold partner friend for a copy of enterprise he gives to his developers.
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