Microsoft is not done adding more odd stuff into its operating system. Following the not-so-great reception of new Start menu ads in one of the recent Beta builds, Microsoft is bringing even more ads, which, besides being slightly annoying, come at the cost of existing features. In build 22635.3500, the Sign Out button is now hidden behind a menu with a Microsoft 365 ad.
Microsoft calls the new thing “Account Manager.” In a nutshell, it is a flyout with your existing subscriptions, a Microsoft 365 upsell, and a few account-related notifications, like a prompt to add a backup phone number or enable OneDrive backups. There is now also a link to your Microsoft Account settings.
Taras Buria at Neowin
The beatings will continue until moral improves.
Luckily, Windows is an incoherent mess, so there will be other ways to shut down the computer which this won’t affect. Alt-F4 on the desktop still brings up a Windows 7 style shut down dialog rather than the Windows 11 shut down options, so that will almost certainly remain unaffected by this new ‘Account Manager’ nonsense. Sometimes Windows’ messiness can be a good thing, at least as far as it concerns Microsoft’s ability to shove stuff in our faces.
Unluckily (for Microsoft) they really do seem to want the year of the Linux desktop, and that year will start in October 2025. An October Revolution, if you will.
Lol no, Windows 10 users will keep running Windows 10 unpatched since Chrome and Firefox will keep being updated on Windows 10 courtesy of ESU and LTSC 2019, just like they did for Windows 7. Then they’ll begrudgingly move to Windows 11, if anything because their Windows 10 computer will be too old by then (it’ll be end of 2028 or so by then).
Remember, we were supposed to get the YearOfTheLinuxDesktopTM back when Windows XP was going EOL and back when Windows 7 was going EOL.
kurkosdr,
The majority of us who are daily linux drivers don’t use phrases like the “year of the linux desktop”. What the hell is that even supposed to mean? I find this phrase often gets used in conjunction with people setting false and irrelevant expectations and then trying to bust the merits of linux based on those false expectations. As long as linux is sustainable, I couldn’t care less about popularity contests. Seriously, I choose linux based on it’s merits rather than it’s popularity. But whatever, let’s look at the actual trends…
https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-share-of-windows-7/
In the past 11 years, maxos has almost doubled. Linux market share has more than quadrupled in size, which is kind of amazing. Meanwhile windows has lost around a fifth of it’s market share. These changes are slow but steady. Obviously windows still has the largest market share, but based on these numbers you think linux fans should be ashamed of the progress that’s been made? Why? It looks like we are doing fine. Sure windows users can gloat about having the larger market share but going by the trends it appears that many windows users are actually quite dissatisfied. Considering how we are creatures of habit and very resistant to change, I honestly think the level of dissatisfaction is higher but most users don’t want to go through the major hassle of migrating, which I understand.
I’m just saying that this progress will rapidly increase come October 2025. I’m considering a move myself, just need to ensure certain software I need will work via wine/proton.
Romans,
Please just stop updating your windows. I beg you.
Set your network connection to a metered one, and get rid of this kind of crap for good.
Morale will never improve. Gen Z have been socially engrennered to be sheeple. Boomers and Gen X are being phased out in life now, so no, There will be no pushback unless it affects the prevailing social media flavor nowadays IMO.
I wonder how serious programmers feel when they realise they are employed to create code that tricks users into clicking on things instead of improving the fuction and performance of an operating system.
I hope that’s some sort of 4/20 joke I don’t understand, because it was was verily unfunny.