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Daniel Gibson

@SylvieLorxu @korenchkin

To be fair, it's not really new on Windows either. Not sure if that was already introduced with Win8, but Win10 definitely had ads for stuff from Windows Store (like Candy Crush or Disney+) in the start menu

Screenshot of Windows 10 start menu, that lists "Disney+" under "Productivity" (I never installed that) and Pinterest, Spotify and some mobile-game-likes under "Play" (I didn't install any of that either)
26 April at 22:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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Maximilian

@Doomed_Daniel @SylvieLorxu Even if it was in Windows 8, that would make it October 2012, which is still later than September 2012 …

Not sure we need to take this so seriously, though.

26 April at 22:43 | Open on chaos.social
Daniel Gibson

@korenchkin @SylvieLorxu
yeah, TBH I'm just generally confused why everyone acts like ads in the Win startmenu are a new thing, it just happened to be this toot where I had the motivation to start a VM and take a screenshot ;)

26 April at 22:44 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Maximilian
Sylvia

@korenchkin @Doomed_Daniel It's more that it's in the news again and I felt like being silly, nothing more. Have to admit though, I completely forgot about the Windows 8 ads (I remember the outrage now but never experienced it myself as the last Windows I used was 7). Good thing is happened to be just later than Ubuntu or my joke would've been ruined ;)

All I really know is that I'm happy to have very little ads in my life, adblockers rule :)

26 April at 23:22 | Open on chaos.social
bugbear

@Doomed_Daniel @SylvieLorxu @korenchkin In that screenshot... is Windows implying Disney+ is a productivity tool? :patrick_shock:

27 April at 11:35 | Open on alt.lawndale.space
Daniel Gibson

@bugbear @SylvieLorxu @korenchkin
I mean, I wish everyone working on UI "features" at Microsoft had spent their time since Win7 watching Disney cartoons instead

27 April at 13:26 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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