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.

  • @foggy
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    3608 months ago

    Execs: what can we do?!

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

    • @ArtVandelay
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      1918 months ago

      More AI in the start menu!

      • @foggy
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        8 months ago

        Execs: Holy shit. Give him a raise.

        Lay off everyone else while you’re at it.

          • @Plopp
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            168 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]
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        88 months ago

        With that attitude, you’ll never work in marketing…

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

    • @JigglypuffSeenFromAbove
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      278 months ago

      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!

      • @yamanii
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        88 months ago

        Where is the research part of “marketing research”? lol

      • @Starkstruck
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        28 months ago

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

        • JJROKCZ
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          48 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]
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      28 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.