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Ads in Windows Explorer? Say it ain't so, Microsoft!

There are bad ideas, and there are BAD IDEAS.

Then, there are EFFIN’ BAD IDEAS!

This though, is the mother of all bad ideas!

Listen, I know that Microsoft has generously made Windows® literally free for registered/registered users, and with Windows 11, provided what is no doubt the most hassle-free and most capable Windows update ever.

However, even with that solid, ads in Windows Explorer are really, way too far.

As Steve Jobs might have put it,

Microsoft, please let sanity return to Redmond, and stop this nonsense immediately.

Thanks you.

Original story:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979251/microsoft-file-explorer-ads-windows-11-testing

Can Microsoft even create a touch-first operating system, or even a touch-first version of Windows?

Over the past several months, I have been subjected to several news reports about the Microsoft Surface Duo 2, the ‘lost’ Microsoft Windows Version S operating, the new Surface devices, and quite happily, the magnificent Windows 11.

I also use the iPad as a tablet. Daily.

What does that have to do with anything?

Plenty.

While the Surface line really shows off their hybrid chops, they aren’t touch-first devices like the iPad is.

Resultantly, they cannot be used as pure tablets, and that’s a darned shame! Because, into this breech steps the iPad, which is a very good media consumption device. Only.

Which does everything well in that realm, as long as you desire to live in Apple’s walled garden.

I don’t.

I don’t want anything Android either. Ever!

I just want a Microsoft touch-first, preferably windows-based operating system for all my Surface tablets.

So that I can ditch the keyboard and the mouse.

That can’t too much to ask now, can it?

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