Microsoft has frequently used this kind of reminder to encourage upgrades.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Im guessing if your pc isn’t good enough to fully run the program it would be slow as shit or something, and people would have a bad impression of it.

    So, you know, lets plaster ads for it all your computer instead. That’ll make a great impression!

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      2 days ago

      That didn’t stop them from making their God awful searchIndexer default to scanning all the disks way too regularly back then, including C:, even if it was the slowest laptop HDD on earth