I think they’re going to need to back pedal some ideas. Ideas that are “for your benefit” such as, your user folder linked to one drive (so you’ll always have a backup) is also a cash-grab (“oh, you only have 5 GB of space. We’ll sell you more!”). This needs to be opt-in.
Windows 7’s market share has surprisingly increased to about 9.61% in 2025. This rise is likely due to users hesitating to upgrade to Windows 11 as support for Windows 10 is ending.
You can say that’s only 10%, but how much is that in lost revenue?
your user folder linked to one drive (so you’ll always have a backup) is also a cash-grab
That’s actually illegal bundling behavior, something they wouldn’t dare do if Biden was still president and Lina Khan was still head of the FTC.
I think actually that the future of Windows won’t be so dire post Trump. There’s no way the pro-monopoly brain rot survives this admin, and people will soon start to realize that the billionaires, although easy targets, are just a symptom of lax regulation rather than the root cause of the enshitiffication apocalypse of the mid 2020s.
I think they’re going to need to back pedal some ideas. Ideas that are “for your benefit” such as, your user folder linked to one drive (so you’ll always have a backup) is also a cash-grab (“oh, you only have 5 GB of space. We’ll sell you more!”). This needs to be opt-in.
You can say that’s only 10%, but how much is that in lost revenue?
That’s actually illegal bundling behavior, something they wouldn’t dare do if Biden was still president and Lina Khan was still head of the FTC.
I think actually that the future of Windows won’t be so dire post Trump. There’s no way the pro-monopoly brain rot survives this admin, and people will soon start to realize that the billionaires, although easy targets, are just a symptom of lax regulation rather than the root cause of the enshitiffication apocalypse of the mid 2020s.
Pretty sure the user folder has been onedrive for ages, including during Biden’s presidency.
Not everything is about politics.
They were only in office for 4 years, and while they did a lot they couldn’t do everything.
No, but antitrust enforcement obviously is