It doesn’t stop all tracking, a lot of it still happens in the background, only “without identification”. If you thought otherwise, I have this pristine Eiffel Tower for sale.
I’ve never paid for it. Most Windows 11 users have not paid for it. You can buy a license but they also gave it away to effectively everyone and anyone who wants to can run it without buying it so long as you don’t mind the “activate more” watermark and less appearance options
…having a demo version of windows does not count as “having it”.
It’s a paid product. Windows Home costs 139$. And if you bought a laptop or pre-built PC with windows on it, you have already paid for the license as part of the price. And since most people buy pre-built PCs, or laptops, most people thus do pay for the windows license.
So people having the ability to use it and cover week their needs without having to pay money to Microsoft for Windows 11 then that means Microsoft needs to recoup those costs somehow. I know you want to move those goal post but the reality is still what it is.
Windows 11 is pretty awesome though
That’s where you lost credibility.
Windows 7 was their last non-tracking OS.
1 minute during setup is not exactly a sacrifice
It’s not 1 minute, you have to be technically savvy and run scripts from GitHub
No it’s just a title list that’s presented to you on the first time startup wizard
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Oh Jesus her we go
It doesn’t stop all tracking, a lot of it still happens in the background, only “without identification”. If you thought otherwise, I have this pristine Eiffel Tower for sale.
I’m not at all concerned about them collecting random useless data that will happen their own effectiveness
Imagine thinking in 2023 that there’s still such a thing as ‘useless data’
What’s the useful part
It shows where Microsoft’s mind is at. And it won’t stop here.
God forbid they make money on a product they have given away
Given away? Windows is a paid product. And there are other (free!) operating systems that are not driven by profit.
I’ve never paid for it. Most Windows 11 users have not paid for it. You can buy a license but they also gave it away to effectively everyone and anyone who wants to can run it without buying it so long as you don’t mind the “activate more” watermark and less appearance options
…having a demo version of windows does not count as “having it”.
It’s a paid product. Windows Home costs 139$. And if you bought a laptop or pre-built PC with windows on it, you have already paid for the license as part of the price. And since most people buy pre-built PCs, or laptops, most people thus do pay for the windows license.
So people having the ability to use it and cover week their needs without having to pay money to Microsoft for Windows 11 then that means Microsoft needs to recoup those costs somehow. I know you want to move those goal post but the reality is still what it is.
They make their real money on Azure iirc. And they’ve recently had a security leak of about 38 TB of data. Nice.
It’s still missing a handful of features from Windows10, which might keep some people from upgrading
Yeah that and on my custom built pc that runs awesomely windows 11 poo poos some of my hardware and refuses to take up residence all together.
I’m running Windows 11 on Chromebooks without issue.
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If I can rerun Windows 11 on a machine without actual Windows support I’m sure your issue is not going to be on the fault of Microsoft
Any operating system can run on anything with an x86 CPU. That’s not what’s insane, it’s the fact that it’s gonna be unbearably slow
It’s not slow though, it’s snappy and fast
I’ll bite, what features are missing
Ungrouped task bar buttons, I like seeing what’s running on my task bar at a glance. And I don’t like having it shrunk down to just an icon either.
You can ungroup them. it’s under personalization > taskbar
Ah, last I heard, it was in the Insider Channel previews. Guess it’s live now.
i just did an install of 11 here on a test machine. specifically went looking for that option. didn’t see it.