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Microsoft is Testing Ads in Mail App For Windows 10 in Select Markets (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: Ads in your inbox. Sounds like something you'd expect from the likes of Google or Yahoo, but Microsoft appears to be about to get in on the act as well. And we're not talking about online ads in your Outlook.com account -- we're talking about ads in the Mail app that's included with Windows 10. A new report says that Microsoft is currently testing ads with Windows Insiders, so it could be just a matter of time before they spread wider. In a support page, spotted first by news outlet Thurrott, Microsoft says, "Consistent with consumer email apps and services like Outlook.com, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail, advertising allows us to provide, support, and improve some of our products. We're always experimenting with new features and experiences. Currently, we have a pilot running in Brazil, Canada, Australia, and India to get user feedback on ads in Mail."
Update: ZDNet reports that Calendar app for Windows 10 is getting the same treatment.
Update: ZDNet reports that Calendar app for Windows 10 is getting the same treatment.
Fuck you.
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Enough people use it to make it a viable advertisement platform?
Come on, is it April 1?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Look Microsoft you have been shipping a mail client (of a kind) with Windows since at least 3.11. Now maybe that was just a ploy to sell some NT Server and later Exchange licenses. All fine; whatever. Here is the thing though you are charging me for the OS. The license fee should pay for you to improve my experience.
The addition of advertising will certainly NOT improve my experience. Now I would argue that a mail client really is out side the scope of an OS anyway. If you don't want to support it or develop it; than just drop it entirely. Plenty of freeware mail clients out there you crappy one will be missed by exactly nobody.
Keep in mind though you are continuing to destroy the general value proposition of Windows. Apple seems to be able to deliver OSX with a suite of software that would be pretty adequate for most home users needs and give it away for free with (or pay for it by bundling it with) the hardware.
If you expect anyone past the current generation of midlevel IT managers who have just always bought MS; to pay premium prices for your Surface hardware well you better deliver a premium OS. The rest of us are NOT going to pay for your adware.
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Thunderbird is still worlds ahead of the 2018 version of Outlook Express...
Yeah, been playing with Thunderbird for the last week or two, and I wouldn't say it "sucked big time" but it's clearly an unfinished labor of love project. The UI is... a weird mix of mobile and 1990s desktop application with hamburger menus and ugly fonts, the calendar support is missing integrations due to an API change a year ago, the application keeps warning me that mailing list digests are actually scams (WTF? And no, I can't whitelist the sender...), and..
Like there's a "Search the web" thing, and you wonder why, and go "Well, OK, guess it might be useful, I might highlight a word and think "What does this mean", and want to Google it", but then you find out the Windows version, and only the Windows version, doesn't support Google, but that's OK, because what you can do is (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP) craft a special XML file, and then open the Thunderbird console (yes, there's a console, it's like the one in Firefox), and enter a long convoluted command that includes the path to the XML file, and then, voila! You have Google as a search engine.
Also you can enable and disable cookies. In your mail client. And you need to enable them when you're logging into Google to authenticate, and then disable them afterwards because, seriously, why would you ever want to store cookies sent by web servers displaying your email content? Rather than make an executive decision as to how this should work, the Thunderbird team made this an option. There's a UI for this option, which you're forced to use on a regular basis because on/off isn't appropriate, it needs to be "On for this, off for that", but there's no UI for adding a search engine.
It'll be great when it's finished though. They just have to have a clear idea of what it should be, and then finish that. At this point, despite being an older product, it's not as good as Windows 10 Mail, and that's really unfortunate.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
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I have been using it since I can't remember how long and I think it's still the best email client for me out there. It has some very nifty features like "Throw all sent mail in the inbox" and "Put replies in the mailbox you sent them from" that you don't find in other email clients. Yes, it looks a bit strange and it doesn't get a lot of love at the moment, but it never crashes and does its job very well.
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You got me curious, so I tapped the Windows key, typed in "Solitaire", and clicked on the first selection, thinking it would be, you know, Soltaire...
What I got was signed into Xbox Live (I had an Xbox 360 years ago) -- mind you, a sign-in that took something like 30 seconds -- after which it popped open an ugly ad-laden window which told me I was automatically getting a free week of something-or-another premium (what?), and Edge (choke) popped up... with an auto-play video advertisement.
Microsoft has never been worse than they are now.