When is an ad an advertisement and not a recommendation? Microsoft clearly likes to use the term recommendation for what others may see as an advertisement.
There are recommendations in the Start menu, Settings app, Lock screen, File Explorer, Get Help app, and other areas of the operating system already. These are often not that useful. App recommendations in the Start menu are limited to Microsoft Store apps.
Now, Microsoft is testing recommendations in the Microsoft Store app. If you never use the app, you won’t be exposed to these. If you do, you may notice recommendations popping up when you try to use the built-in search.
First spotted by phantomofearth on X, two or three recommendations are shown whenever search is activated in the official Microsoft Store app.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
People need to stop complaining about the ads and they need to start complaining about the existence of a Windows monetization team.
Kill that team now while the revenue is small and the shareholders won’t throw a giant hissy fit.
As long as that team exists, they’re going to be putting ads in shit. Cut the head off the snake.
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Are we speaking metaphorically or literally?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yes
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Microsoft put themselves in this position when they started giving out Windows 10 for free. It was effective in bringing most of the market onto the new version, but it set an expectation which it now feels like they can’t break, so they’re also giving Windows 11 away. Now to offset that missing revenue, they have to do something to extract value from users.
I don’t see how they could stop this without replacing it with something more exploitive.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 months ago
I’d be happy to buy the OS too, but I want it to be a one-time payment and to quit with ads and all telemetry.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Microsoft is the only company that charges for an operating system so frankly I don’t understand why they feel entitled to that income anyway
TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There is nothing free in this life…
Damage@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Microsoft put themselves in this position when they went against the open source movement.
It moves slowly but inexorably, and sooner or later Linux or another open source OS will take their spot on the desktop.