Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
This sucks, of course.  Yet all the comments on this thread saying the solution is to simply switch platforms ignore something very fundamental.<p>I like to say &quot;Nobody goes to Home Depot to buy a drill bit; what they want to buy is a hole.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t use Windows because I want to use Windows.  I use it because there are things I need to do that can only be done with it.<p>The &quot;just switch to Linux&quot; reaction is an understandable engineering reaction.  And, frankly, if your world is limited to web development and some forms of embedded development it might make a ton of sense.  Yet, from a business perspective it makes no sense outside of scenarios that fit Linux well.<p>For others it isn&#x27;t that simple.  What would the Linux proponents suggest we do with hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in software not available on any other platform?  Solidworks, Siemens NX, Altium Designer, FEA and other simulation tools, CAM and other manufacturing tools, an myriad other applications ranging from business to medicine to engineering that depend on this platform.<p>The goal of a business is to deliver goods and services, not to play with operating systems.  The operating system is irrelevant.  It&#x27;s all about the software that runs on it and the utility it provides to users.  As an aside, this, I believe, is exactly where Apple has gone wrong.  By insisting on having totalitarian control over everything on their platforms they have effectively limited the utility of their devices.  At the same time, this is what makes them so good for a certain range of utilization scenarios.<p>We use Windows because it is the only way to buy a hole.  We could not care less what OS is under the hood.  All we care about is the hole we need to drill.<p>And, frankly, Microsoft has been making a better product with time.  I&#x27;ve been using MS products since DOS on the original IBM PC (I bought one when they came out for $3,200).  Save missteps here and there, MS software has always improved with time.  What they need is our feedback in order to make it even better.  The criticism is fair, of course.