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The ads cannot be filtered out when they are designed in a way that you have to sub to remove them, on streaming tv its coded in a way that breaks the streaming and you cannot bypass it i am not talking about gui ads the actual ones baked into the stream.
Outlook email has ads now which you cannot remove you need to subscribe for 14.99 a month or xyzc hurry up and buy now! a year to remove them.
Remember we are talking about a company that is a billion dollar enterprise that owns well over 100 subsidiary's. There is no real reason to milk its customer base like this when they are making 69 billion dollar deals the biggest closure in history, certainly the biggest in computer history. Still not really sure how ppl want to justify that and stick up for it.
It has to be due to Ai because its expensive af market to venture in they do have their own venture Synchron and they are in the space in other ways, copilot means that there is a real expense to windows now that was not really the case before it. They probably do feel the need to recoup some of that because margins and ai is expensive.
Ai is also a race kind of like a the moon landing was. Soon all this rich figures are battling to dominate the space like the first to climb the highest mountain or something.
You buy into the OS with a key and they generally honor that key into the next few OS if you are lucky enough to tie them together like this. OEM keys were factored into the computer's purchase price so you are paying for the key when you pay for the computer.
Well now is the hard line in the sand where they cut all that off all those old keys no longer work. They are now not giving us a entry to Windows for free because soon you might have to sub instead.
Nothing will be free because its all backed by a sub which generates billions in revenue each year and is on the path to become a trillion dollar industry real soon. Microsoft has the very raw potential to be a leader in that trillion dollar landscape very easily as it has a lot of market power right now. So much so that a company such as Microsoft would be an instant leader in that industry.
Last edited by Malneb; 4 Weeks Ago at 08:30.