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Regolith · 3408 days ago · link · · parent · post: Windows 10? Here are privacy issues you should consider
Given the changes to their privacy policies, making Cortana a flagship feature, and giving 10 away for free to most of their potential audience, it seems like Microsoft is moving towards the Google style of a data driven business for this OS instead of a product sales driven business. It'll be interesting to see how (And if) they can make that strategy work, given that the 10%~ ad-network market share doesn't give them an awful lot of scope to capitalise on targeted ads like Google does. Assuming this is the case, it seems like a backwards way of going at the problem – get the advertisers on board, and surely the users will flock to view those ads.