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Microsoft made a lot of changes in Windows 10 that helped it put the mistakes of Windows 8 in the rear view mirror. Not all of Microsoft's ideas are good, though. The company has shown a tendency to get a little too casual with how it promotes its services within Windows. You might even call these "ads." Microsoft would, of course, dispute that description. Some of these things that look very much like ads have started showing up in File Explorer. Specifically, Windows 10 has started nagging people to buy a subscription to OneDrive.
Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service is built into Windows 10 and tied to your Microsoft account. Everyone gets 5GB of space free, but you can pay to get as much as 1TB for a single user. That also includes an Office 365 subscription. Depending on your needs, that might be a good deal. That does not necessarily mean you want to be made aware of said deal while browsing your files.
The ad appears as a banner at the top of File Explorer, reminding you that OneDrive and Office 365 can be had for a mere $6.99 per month. You can take Microsoft up on the offer or dismiss it. It may just reappear at a later date, though. Some users reported seeing this a few months ago, but the incidence has ticked upward in the last week or so. This is not the first time Microsoft has crammed ads into the Windows UI — there are the lock screen ads disguised as backgrounds, notification ads for Edge, and a strange pop-up ad for Microsoft's personal shopping assistant in Chrome.
(Score: 5, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday March 11 2017, @11:31PM (5 children)
I thought about trying Windows 10. I decided I'd do a fresh install of Windows 7 to another SSD, then let it upgrade to Windows 10.
During all the switcheroo-ing with the two SSDs, the motherboard decided to fry itself.
It knew, man. It knew.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by driven on Sunday March 12 2017, @01:29AM (4 children)
On a serious note, you may have fried your motherboard via electro-static discharge. Make sure you ground yourself before touching your computer internals. I learned that the hard way when ruined by main logic board on my old MacBook Pro. Costly mistake. And I knew better, it just never seemed to be a problem on older hardware.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2017, @04:53AM (3 children)
Pretty sure we all got that A+ certification back in middle school, bud.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2017, @05:26AM (2 children)
I'm pretty sure the A+ certification didn't exist when I was in middle school (which we called junior high school).
So get off my lawn!
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Sunday March 12 2017, @07:22PM (1 child)
i am confused by all the naming conventions of schools...
back in the day, it was as you said: elementary school, junior high school, high school...
(not sure why 'junior high' couldn't be 'senior elementary' school...)
now it is elementary (or primary), middle, high...
but that seems to logically suggest low, middle, high...
(i guess college should be 'super-high' school...)
realistically, maybe should be : goosestepping school, break their spirit school, prepare for the borg school, and abandon all hope ye who enter college...
just sayin'...
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday March 13 2017, @01:42AM
Here it seems to be a reaction to changing demographics. Too many young kids vs older ones so the local high school changed from grades 8-12 to 7-10 and then 6-9 and became a middle school rather then jr high which is traditional 8-10. The other high school is now only senior high or 10-12.