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Ads in Windows 10 to increase in July

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Microsoft recently announced that it will double the number of advertisements on the Start page in Windows 10 starting around July 2016. Does anyone still doubt that Microsoft’s long-term strategy is heavily focused on advertising? Or why Microsoft has been pushing people so hard to upgrade to Windows 10 its new advertising platform?

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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