Currently in test version, the latest Windows 11 update displays advertising messages in Explorer or in the taskbar. Microsoft explains that it was an internal experiment and which should not appear.
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Will we soon experience ads in Windows? The question deserves to be asked since a tester of the build 22572 Windows 11 discovered an advertisement message in Explorer. It is only a line of text but it could be the beginnings of a real evolution.
The screenshot reads: ” Write with confidence across documents, email and the web with advanced writing suggestions from Microsoft Editor “. Which means Windows 11 wants to entice users to turn to Microsoft Editor. According to XDA-Developersother users have seen messages to install Powerpoint which, it should be remembered, is integrated into the Office suite, and is therefore not included in Windows 11.
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Clearly, it’s not very aggressive, and it only concerns products Microsoft, but these messages would also be visible in the Start menu and in the taskbar. A visual pollution to which Microsoft was rarely accustomed, even if we must remember in the past, ” push to encourage people to use cloud service OneDrive or, of course, the Microsoft Edge browser.
Anyway, the publisher immediately reacted to this discovery, and Microsoft pleads the ” bug “. ” This was an experimental banner that was not intended for external posting and has been disabled”explains Brandon LeBlanc, Senior Program Manager Windowsin a statement to The Verge. Nevertheless, if it is experimental, it is that Microsoft is seriously considering adding advertisements to its products in the Explorer.
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