Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu

Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by qbasic_forever on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:13PM (#35546096)

Forced Candy Crush, Facebook and other installs, MSN tabloid news articles, etc. are all over Windows start menu too. It's extremely tasteless and looks like a grocery store checkout aisle.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by wombat-man on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:25PM (#35546290)

I think I've seen the apple news widget helpfully installed on my iPad before. The candy crush thing is true, but I haven't really noticed it until I just checked.

The pinned apps thing is sorta annoying but generally I just hit windows + type whatever I'm looking for. Like spotlight on mac.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by eastbound on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:42PM (#35546542)

You are discountingthe effect that the plebs still using Windows will click on Candy Crush and get addicted.

It may hook only 7 people out of 100, but it’s just toxic.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by MikusR on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:20PM (#35546206)

And is irrelevant to this article.

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