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Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com)

Posted by timothy on from the continue-in-5-4-3-2-1 dept.

Mark Wilson writes: We've all become used to the idea of ads online — it's something that has become part and parcel of using the internet — but in Windows? If you've updated to build 10565 of Windows 10, you're in for something of a surprise: the Start menu is now being used to display ads. We're not talking about ads for Viagra, porn, or anything like that, but ads for apps. Of course, Microsoft is not describing them as ads; 'Suggested apps' has a much more approachable and fluffy feel to it. Maybe. This is a 'feature' that's currently only being shown to Windows Insiders, but it could spread to everyone else. Will it be well-received?

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  1. Re:If you did not pay for the product, you are one by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 1, Troll

    and just how is it that you secure a product that is constantly talking to systems on the internet, and doesn't have a way to disable such communication? An early beta of Win10 did this as well, I saw it - I was just curious what Win10 looked like, so I put it on something. After seeing that, I quickly removed it and any thought I'd ever use Windows for anything ever again.

    So you installed a beta version of Windows 10, one that told you it had such things in it that couldn't be disabled because it was a TEST VERSION, you didn't like it, and now you hate Windows forever?

    Yea, right. You already hated Windows and were just looking for a reason. You're simply doing confirmation bias, you want your existing bias confirmed and this is how you did it.