Microsoft has received a lot of criticism for ads in Windows 11’s File Explorer. The group has now made a public statement on the matter. The advertisements were therefore “not intended for external publication”. However, one does not want to rule out advertising for the future.
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Microsoft: Ads in File Explorer unintentionally
Ads have appeared in Windows 11’s File Explorer. Other Microsoft products are advertised here. The banners are with users anything but positive been. Screenshots circulating on social networks caused malice – and now Microsoft has commented on the subject itself.
According to Brandon LeBlanc, who is the senior program manager for Windows, the Explorer ad was “not for external publication” certainly. Rather, it would have been an internal “experiment” that has since been discontinued. The ad placement was a mistake, it is said (source: The Verge).
For the future, Microsoft has not explicitly ruled out that there will be no advertising in Windows 11’s File Explorer. The more or less unsuccessful test shows that it is at least appropriate Considerations at Microsoft gives. As early as 2017, a banner in Windows 10 Explorer advertising OneDrive attracted attention.
Advertising in the operating system is also not new territory for Microsoft. In the past, ads were placed on the Windows 10 lock screen, in the start menu and also in the taskbar. Many of the apps built into Windows 8 also contained advertising.
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