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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)

submitted 4 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the Settings app.

This will likely arrive in the July update for Windows 11, or at least it’s almost certain to do so. It was present in the latest preview update Microsoft just released for the OS (and quickly paused due to a bug, but that’s another story). It’s also worth noting that the ad has been present in earlier test versions of Windows 11.

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Regarding Linux, what commercial software are you dependent on? More and more, it's all online, even Office.

[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Autodesk for myself, apparently its super dependant on .net and other windows framework so its not like they are going to make it linux compatible any time soon.

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It looks like it runs perfectly via WINE from a few quick Google searches

[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks, ill check it out

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Adobe Creative Cloud, which despite the name is pretty much local. And although Microsoft Office works online, it has a series of issues that the desktop version doesn't have, like broken formatting on Word.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Ah. Yeah, I don't know of a way to get ACC on Linux.