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Microsoft has begun testing promotions for some of its other products in the File Explorer app on devices running its latest Windows 11 Insider build.

The new Windows 11 "feature" was discovered by a Windows user and Insider MVP who shared a screenshot of an advertisement notification displayed above the listing of folders and files to the File Explorer, the Windows default file manager.

As shown in the screenshot, Microsoft will use such ads to promote other Microsoft products, for instance, about how to "write with confidence across documents, email, and the web with advanced writing suggestions from Microsoft Editor.

As you can imagine, the reaction to this was adverse, to say the least, with some saying that "File Explorer one of the worst places to show ads," while others added that this is the way to go if Microsoft wants "people ditching Explorer for something else."

BleepingComputer also tried replicating this on a system running the newest Windows 11 Insider build, but we didn't get any File Explorer ads.

This can likely be explained by Microsoft running an A/B testing experiment trying to gauge the success of such a feature or by the company disabling it after the visible user outcry.

Window 11 File Explorer ads
Window 11 File Explorer ads (flobo09)
This is not the first time Microsoft has added promotional messages to various places within the Windows user interface.

For example, Redmond tested ads pushing its free Office web apps in the menu bar for the Windows 10 Wordpad application two years ago, a campaign with similar user protests.

The company also started displaying ads for Microsoft Edge in the Windows 10 Start Menu every time users searched for a competing browser, prompting them to download the new Microsoft Edge.


BleepingComputer has reached out to Microsoft with questions regarding the File Explorer ads, but we haven't heard back yet.
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they are hellbent on making it as undignified an experience as possible to use a computer.
 
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Till 2029 if you use LTSC 2019. For other versions, not so long.
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You don't need old-ass LTSC versions to avoid the mandatory updates, just use Professional and disable them through the Group Policy Editor. You can even reenable them temporarily if you really want to update, then disable them again.
 
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We'll figure out how to disable this shit in less time than it took to implement it.
 
Can the OEMs sue them for that? They paid good money for an OS that doesn't shove ads in their customer's faces.
 
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Till 2029 if you use LTSC 2019. For other versions, not so long.
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EOL for all other versions of W10 is October 2025.

I'd consider moving over to LTSC 2019 if you haven't done so already, even if it's just to avoid all the crapware baked into every other W10 version. I've been on it for over 12 months now and I wouldn't go back to normie W10 if you paid me.

tbqh I should probably move over to Linux and just run any Windows apps I can't get away from in a VM. At least I have 7 years to do that, because LTSC.
 
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mfw i make my own products unusable (people will still buy them lol)
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Businesses will still buy it because they are forever cucked.

Normalfags MIGHT break away. Majority of the computers they have are cheapo run-of-the-mill standard shit that takes 5-10 minutes to fully load Win10, and that alone pisses them off. Win11 might actually be a repellent for normalfags.
 
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Businesses will still buy it because they are forever cucked.

Normalfags MIGHT break away. Majority of the computers they have are cheapo run-of-the-mill standard shit that takes 5-10 minutes to fully load Win10, and that alone pisses them off. Win11 might actually be a repellent for normalfags.
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Not in the tech scene. My area was all Microsoft-based not 10 years ago, but the last three gigs I've worked at tech firms have all moved to having developers run the company's preferred linux distro and non-techs use MacBooks.
If Microsoft ever decides to fuck with Exchange, or Office 365, they'll lose a ton of their business customers, but turning the Office Suite into a cloud product ironically liberated most companies from relying on their shit-tastic, massively bloated, ugly operating system.
 
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Jack Awful said:
How long do you think I can stay on Windows 10 until they force me to upgrade?
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Probably until Microsoft bribes AMD and Intel to not make drivers for <current new thing> in their CPUs.
So this will probably be a new era of "my 10-year-old pc works fine lol" for me.

(For example, you had to use Windows 10 - or Linux - if you wanted to use the internal USB3 from Ryzen CPUs. Funnily enough the 10GBit/s USB-C was ok, because that was provided by an onboard chip IIRC.)
 
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