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Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

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[–] [email protected] 358 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Execs: what can we do?!

Jim from marketing: We could throw ads into windows 11... That'll get em flocking! People love ads!

[–] [email protected] 190 points 4 months ago (3 children)

More AI in the start menu!

[–] [email protected] 138 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Execs: Holy shit. Give him a raise.

Lay off everyone else while you're at it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hang on a sec, this isn’t Google!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Speaking of, let's see if we can get that Prabhakar Raghavan guy, he seems to know what he's doing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Ads will continue till the users fall in love with ads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

With that attitude, you'll never work in marketing...

REPLACING the start menu with AI is the way to go!!!!111

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

In my company they legitimately try to convince us that our users love ads.

I conducted user research on one of our websites, which showed complaints about the amount of ad placements we have been throwing at them. The execs responded by telling me "but we are actually HELPING them, we're showing them products that will improve their productivity and processes". Then, they came up with ideas for new ways we can place MORE ads on top of the ones already there. I'm sure our users are loving it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Where is the research part of "marketing research"? lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good god that's actually insane. Corpos have completely lost it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It’s more like the execs know that ad revenue is a significant chunk of the revenue stream and cost very little to implement so they’ll keep growing that until it starts measurably impacting other revenue centers in the org

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

On a related note, YouTube just gave me a pop-up advertising premium again, only this time the cancel button was "No, I like ads."

I was gonna sit back and watch an hour of YT (with ads) but that pop-up rubbed me the wrong way and I didn't watch anything so that I might skew the A/B test in favor of no dark patterns.