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Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 2 months ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Is Microsoft so in debt that they need to sell ad space in every pixal of their products? What is going on.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Debt? This is capitalism, baby. Where every year's profits have to be bigger than last year's or else it counts as you failing, no matter how enormous the profits were last year.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The hell? This leads only to inflation.

[–] Toes@ani.social 7 points 2 months ago

Human sacrifices please the line. 💹

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

That's the CEO's next paycheck

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

The rate of profit is declining and the managers are looking for anything and everything to prop it back up. A German guy wrote about this like 150 years ago.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago

Dumb businesses majors who only know "growth"

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not enough for a company to have a lot of money, they have to have all the money.

Remember: under capitalism companies are legally obligated to pursue every last dollar they can possibly get, regardless of the damage it will do to the product, company, customer, or bystanders.

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Remember: under capitalism companies are legally obligated to pursue every last dollar they can possibly get, regardless of the damage it will do to the product, company, customer, or bystanders

This is not true. Please stop repeating this lie which has become the excuse for companies to be even more evil

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits

[–] BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the 2nd most valuable company in the world? Hardly.

No they're just switching business models, from paying for an OS outright to OS as a service

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

In that case you don't pay for windows anymore, right? Right????