With respect, that's a load of horse crap. This is NOT why so many of your users are upset. They're angry because you've exhibited a long, deliberate pattern of historical abuse: upgrade-style dark patterns, invasive telemetry, advertisements built into Windows, and outright hostility toward users who want to own their OS rather than the other way around. God damn.
People will complain about ads, but when you actually take a look what they are complaining about it is not actually an ad. People just hear a complaint and repeat it without any critical thought.
It's better to instead focus on actual tangible problems and pain points that developers and users are hitting.
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Opera Browser [Promoted]
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Buy OneDrive for $6.99 a month
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Do you think these aren't ads?
The second I would not consider an ad, but an upsell.
Nothing should appear on a user's screen that doesn't add value for what the user is trying to get done. This is really, really simple. If you are Microsoft, and you are thinking about whether something should appear on the screen, you should be thinking "Does this advance the user's goals?". If you are instead thinking "Does this advance Microsoft's goals?", then you are doing it wrong.
The same applies to automagically configuring everything to use the cloud (good for Microsoft, usually bad for the user). And, as a special case of that, requiring the user to use a cloud-based account to log into their own local computer.
I know people always say that macOS purposely don’t target business, and things like this, but at this point.. why not? Honestly? They have the best hardware in the world right now. Catering just to personal use (and these lines are getting blurrier each day with WFH) is just inconvenient.
They just need to make an Apple version of SharePoint and Exchange, and wala.
Now you have a suitable stack for small and medium businesses with simple requirements, like most retail, small lawyers, small accountants, etc
I setup a small business recently and I was able to use a full Apple stack except for Exchange Online Plan 1 (email) and Mosyle (MDM). These are both tech that Apple has (iCloud Mail and Apple Business Manager), it’s just lacking a few critical features.
That’s 99% of the way there and fully within their capability.
Step 1. Use dark patterns to funnel users into using a product or service they don’t want
Step 2. Watch usage kpis go up
Step 3. “Everyone says they hate this, but look at our kpis! Must just be a vocal minority” Move on to next thing
Ok but
> not wanting to upgrade hardware to get a minor OS change.
Bit of contradiction both in the immediate “need a whole new machine“ and the well known deprecation of 7 year old Macs wrt new OS releases.
I’m sure it’s still better than Windows though (haven’t used Windows for 2 decades except for occasional short lived business mandates)
I think the reality is that they are super confused, don't have a vision, and therefore, no strategy. They are just like a marble bouncing in a pachinko machine.
For example, look at the churn on the UI framework - I think they have gone through three or more frameworks in the last few years.
The constant updates are just huge. I don't think on Linux they use anti-virus software. I'm sure it is nice not losing perf to the AV. I think the windows file system throughput for small files is horrid compared to Linux.
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