Microsoft found testing ads in Windows 11 File Explorer Insider build

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Microsoft testing ads in Windows 11

Microsoft has started testing advertisements for its products within the Windows 11 file explorer, BleepingComputer reports.

The publication spotted a post from a Windows user and Insider MVP who had uncovered one such ad in a recent test build of Windows 11 promoting spelling and grammar checking tool Microsoft Editor.
 
Vorastra said:
And my list of why I'm not upgrading continues.
MS really do have a cycle of one good, one bad it seems.
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But nothing has happened yet and you don't even know how they plan to implement it. Or is it like that time the WhatsApp users jumped to Telegram due to a business policy which didn't affect them, later all the sheep went back home.
 
RedViking said:
But nothing has happened yet and you don't even know how they plan to implement it. Or is it like that time the WhatsApp users jumped to Telegram due to a business policy which didn't affect them, later all the sheep went back home.
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I take it you're on Windows 11.
Beta test for me, while I wait.
Shot, man.
 
Vorastra said:
And my list of why I'm not upgrading continues.
MS really do have a cycle of one good, one bad it seems.
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The way I see it, one of two things might happen:

1) Ads will get rolled out to Windows 11, and some people will revert back to Windows 10. Microsoft will then relax the system requirements of Windows 11 (think TPM etc.) to get more people on board their ad-funded platform.

or

2) Microsoft will retroactively push ads to Windows 10, but I think (hope) this is unlikely.

People will likely find a way to bypass them anyway, the same as they did bypassing W10 telemetry with Shutup10 and hardcoded ads with PiHole or Adguard Home et al.
 
Why a lot of enterprise software (and games) still only runs on Windows is beyond me.
That is changing, but far too slow.

I know a lot of people that would move over to Linux or MacOS in a heart beat, but because of some business software they've been using for a decade still only runs on Windows, it makes things harder.
 
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