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Windows 10 is now serving Edge advertisements to anyone that does not have it as the default browser.
These ads appear over the Edge icon in the Windows 10 taskbar, even when Edge is not open. They do appear only when Edge is not the default system browser but that covers the majority of Windows 10 systems.
Since it advertises Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Rewards, it is possible that the campaign is reserved to the United States. The reason for this is simple: Microsoft Rewards are only available in the US right now.
This is not the only ad that promotes Microsoft Edge that users may see however. Microsoft is pushing ads in the Action Center as well stating that Chrome is draining battery fast and that switching to Edge would better the situation.
Both ads have some use for users and try to promote a feature of Microsoft Edge or Microsoft that may be beneficial to users.
One could argue that this is a good thing, and it probably would not get such a bad reception if Microsoft would provide clear and concise options to turn of[f] these after they appear once.
The main issue that many Windows 10 users may have with these ads is however that is seems impossible to get rid of those advertisements once and for all.
Microsoft really wants Windows 10 users to use Cortana and Edge.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 05 2016, @06:42PM
In other words, Microsoft are desperate because Ballmer royally fucked the company and now they hired Pajeet Poodoo as their new leader, to gut the company and reduce all of their offerings to the modern equivalents of BonziBuddy.
Just imagine how fucking awesome it would have been if Microsoft opened the kinect API and offered for sale a framework for homebrew devs to create their own games.
But noooooo, Microsoft are too good to tend to their strengths and implement awesome ideas -- that's why their future is glorified adware.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday November 05 2016, @09:15PM
I'm sure there already is a product on the market, but if they keep this crap up, people will make tons of money selling "advertisement blocking" software for Windows 10 - something that keeps up with the latest Microsoft rollouts and changes and just shuts that crap off before it even has a chance to bother you. Seems like a $5.95/year annual subscription opportunity just waiting for implementation and mass marketing.
I've shut off Cortana and removed Edge and Store from the task bar more than once, and they keep coming back... sure, I can research how to shut them off again, and again, and again, but why bother if I can just pay someone else a few cents to do it for me each time. The marketers could even setup a kickback relationship with Microsoft, handing over 30% of their profits in exchange for Microsoft giving them advanced notice of the next wave of crapware in time for the blocker company to rollout effective patches.
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday November 06 2016, @11:00AM
You pay money for Windows and then you have to pay more money to a third party to make is usable?
Something is badly wrong. The rest of us get perfectly usable software for free/Free.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Sunday November 06 2016, @12:17PM
Technically, I don't pay for Windows - but you'd probably be shocked to know what my company pays for my MSDN license that gives me unlimited installs of Windows for "free". I'm writing this response on Ubuntu 15.10, installed on a company laptop - Ubuntu is my preferred "easy running" OS for development and personal use - but the corporation and some of our development is in Windows.
If you think Windows 10 is bad, ask anyone with a corporate IT "maintained" install of Windows 7 and a few "productivity" packages runs... I fire mine up just to use the VPN, which won't install on anything else. Powering up Ubuntu and corporate Windows at the same time, I can log in to the company e-mail via web interface on Ubuntu and answer 3 or 4 e-mails in the time it takes the corporate imaged machine just to boot up and start the e-mail app.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @11:48PM
That's what you get for appointing wanna be white people Indians. Overconfident morons. Another group of useless asians numbering over a billion doing nothing but fucking up the planet.