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: 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.
🌻🌻 [google.com]