[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] FYI: Microsoft reportedly broke Windows 11 by injecting ads

Sat Sep 4 13:11:04 PDT 2021

 The ads in Windows can be controlled or eliminated fairly easily. If you don't like sifting through the settings yourself, there are plenty of third-party apps which will make the needed changes for you. You don't need Pro Editions with Group Policies, and you don't need to use Regedit to mess with the Windows Registry. Home users are not out of luck. 
This is not about something being bad because it's new. When Windows 10 and 11 are very old indeed in tech terms they still will foist ads on people. And Windows 10 is being retrofitted to do this. The News and Weather Widget came to Windows 10 at the same time the Insider Preview of Windows 11 got the feature. 
-- Bob Primak

    On Saturday, September 4, 2021, 03:54:52 PM EDT, Carl Lazarus <carllazarus at comcast.net> wrote:  

Mine too, at various places.  However, you do have to apply security updates fairly quickly these days.  That’s different than going to a major new version.

-- Carl

From: LCTG [mailto:lctg-bounces+carllazarus=comcast.net at lists.toku.us] On Behalf Of john rudy
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2021 9:01 AM
To: 'Steve Isenberg' <smisenberg at gmail.com>; 'Lex Computer Group' <lctg at lists.toku.us>
Cc: normstem at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] FYI: Microsoft reportedly broke Windows 11 by injecting ads

That was my guiding principle at Raytheon for decades. The one time I didn’t was when we got unique SW to generate test vectors (we really didn’t have an alternative, long story) and it was a major pain.

John Rudy

781-861-0402

781-718-8334 (cell)

John.rudy at alum.mit.edu 

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From: LCTG <lctg-bounces+jjrudy1=comcast.net at lists.toku.us> On Behalf Of Steve Isenberg
Sent: Saturday, September 4, 2021 8:56 AM
To: Lex Computer Group <lctg at lists.toku.us>
Cc: normstem at gmail.com
Subject: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] FYI: Microsoft reportedly broke Windows 11 by injecting ads

A colleague of mine from BNUG (Boston Network Users Group) passed this along. 

-steve 

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Norm Stembridge <normstem at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 8:33 AM

Folks, 

Maybe the best mentor I had back in my mainframe days gave me some great and much

heeded advice. "Don't be the first to always try out the latest and greatest". Advice that 

made my career go a lot smoother. 

Figured I pass this along because I know how much everybody in BNUG just loves ads

being injected into their computers.

Norm Stembridge 

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-breaks-windows-11-by-injecting-ads/

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