Microsoft Will Show More Start Menu “Ads” in Windows 10 Redstone

[Batu69]

The number of promoted apps will grow to 10

   Microsoft increasing the number of Start menu recommended apps

 

Microsoft is overhauling the Start menu in the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and one change will concern the number of recommended apps displayed to users.

At the moment, the Start menu is also being used to promote a number of Windows Store apps to Windows 10 users in an attempt not only to drive more traffic to the store but also to help adopters of Microsoft’s new operating system discover the benefit of these apps.

And with the Redstone update (officially called by Microsoft the Anniversary Update), the number of promoted apps will grow from 5 to 10, the company has recently announced at the WinHEC conference. As you can see in the attached slide, Microsoft is trying to make the most of the Start menu, which is pretty much the first thing that Windows 10 adopters see and use every time they boot the OS.

The controversy of Start menu recommended apps

The first recommended apps arrived in Windows 10’s Start menu soon after the company delivered the November Update, and many people blamed Microsoft for displaying ads on their computers.

While at some level they are right because in the end these are ads supposed to entice users into trying apps that are available in the store, it’s actually entirely up to them to decide whether to see these recommended apps or not.

The Settings screen comes with options to disable these recommendations, and if you don’t want to see them anymore, just go to Settings > Personalization > Start > Occasionally show suggestions in Start.

At the WinHEC conference, Microsoft explains that recommended apps are displayed on Windows 10 systems in order to “introduce users and expose them to the Windows Store, because users can discover and engage with high quality and locally relevant apps.”

The company goes on to add that “apps are selected for promotion on a per-geography basis and are managed by service and will change on a regular basis.” Users can not only block the suggestions from showing up again at a later time but also uninstall them should they decide to install any.

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[eurobyn]

with other words they come back to the standard button....but it is difficult to go back.

the greatest mistake whas this start button. whe do not need modern ui whe need the standard button that goes 15 years back.

 

[steven36]

3 hours ago, eurobyn said:

with other words they come back to the standard button....but it is difficult to go back.

the greatest mistake whas this start button. whe do not need modern ui whe need the standard button that goes 15 years back.

 

The start button came back in Windows 8.1 , Windows 8.2 beta (AKA windows 10) brought back the start menu witch is a ads infested version that dont look like a classic start at all if you dont like it you can  change the start button and the start menu with classic shell  they have different start button designs and start menu skins at there forum.

 

Here's the one that comes with windows 8.1

 

Here's one from Windows 10

 

As you can see there the same design  .

 

[David]

windows with ads????   what the fuck??  do you realy want to kill windows microsoft?

[Karlston]

Now the true cost of the "free" Windows 10 upgrade begins to reveal itself to users.

 

Start10, StartIsBack++, Classic Shell... can be used to replace the native W10 start menu with the (IMO) better Windows 7 style (and other styles). Well, that is until Microsoft decides to prevent users replacing their start menu, like they did with forcing Cortana search to be only Bing.

[Ryrynz]

ERMAHGERD another reason to hate 10 ~smashes hands and face against keyboard~

[vibranium]

Microsoft begins to paint themselves into a corner, the one-OS-to-rule-them-all Windows 10 that nobody wants.

[steven36]

On undefined at 1:11 PM, David said:

 do you realy want to kill windows microsoft?

Windows 10 = Ads are us , its not just the start menu, It also installs apps that collect data  it also  has a invisible data sucker it makes money  from and uses   lol this how windows 10 users are paying for all those 300 million copies  and growing windows is not Linux and no one rides for free  There Google on steroids

[OrbingStorm]

Go to settings-personalisation-start-and turn off- occasionally show suggestions in start.

[LeeSmithG]

So Windows 10 is malware?

 

/sarcasm, now that's different!

[vibranium]

Quote

Benefits
Reduce OEM image complexity and creation,
maintenance and deployment time
Users are in control and can remove to save disk space
for other apps

 

This makes zero sense for OEMs and Consumers. Maybe we should call it Windows Zero?

[aang]

everything microsoft do for you is wrong!!!!!   if you don't like 10 use 7 

i'm so   bored by those who regret 15 years ago start menu.

the world evolves !!!!

[steven36]

36 minutes ago, aang said:

i'm so   bored by those who regret 15 years ago start menu.

the world evolves !!!!

I'm so sick and tired of software companies putting adware in software in the name of free  but by the time Redstone comes out they say windows 10 want even be  free anymore . I can use Windows 7 , Windows 8.1 and Linux witch i have here in my computer room .  my bat cave and enjoy a ad free experience . I use adblockers in my my browser so i dont have look at ads . If i want use it as a free upgrade why would pay a $100 or $200 for it?  I'm sorry but putting ads in something is not evolving . Advertising-supported software Adware has been around since the 1990s so really windows 10 as far as this goes is a downgrade and a step back to the  1990s, early 2000s 

[LeeSmithG]

16 hours ago, aang said:

everything microsoft do for you is wrong!!!!!   if you don't like 10 use 7 

i'm so   bored by those who regret 15 years ago start menu.

the world evolves !!!!

 

 

It's not evolution it's what is being forced upon you.

 

I don't like eight (8) or ten (10).

 

I like seven (7).

 

I still think M$ should just build upon seven (7) rather than forcing people to use the style of eight (8) and ten (10).

 

Three (3) people in my household upgraded for free to Windows ten (10).

 

Within two (2) hours reverted back to one (1) times seven (7) and two (2) times eight (8).

 

My upgrade notification has left the notification area, maybe twenty (20) years ago I would had upgraded.

 

Not now.

 

 

[steven36]

Two late for them to build on windows  7  witch was built upon Vista , You got Vista ,Vista 7 Vista 8.1  and Vista 10 ..  Windows 7  was made because they never been able to sell under the name Vista and Windows 10 was made because they never be able to sell under Windows 8 but all built off of Vista's core if there was no Vista windows tech would still be at XP level . While Windows 7 was a good version of Vista ,  the rest of the Vistas just mostly added or took away features the masses object too  

 

 

At  User Agent Breakdowns Wikimedia Foundation  were they count all O/S not just desktop/laptop  Windows 7 only have 23% and Android  is a close 2nd with 20% in reality windows 10 just dont have to pass Windows 7 it has pass IOS , Android and Windows 7 to get too the top were no longer living in the 1st decade of the 21st century,  were people still use only laptops and desktops to access the WWW.  Even Windows 10 is Hybrid  Desktop / Mobile/ Cloud  No one buys Windows Phones so why Hybrid something after them? .

 

The way things  is headed  Microsoft could lose its top spot as the most used O/S in the world to Android soon if very many more leave Windows7 for another O/S.   Windows users fighting against  each other while  Android is about to take it. and even IOS  could end up in 2nd place, This part of the reason Linux desktop  never had a strong Marketshare too much fighting within .  

[mirassol]

Actually it never occurred to me that MS had ever done anything for me. But then it is only me i don't know others. Could be MS bought other people ice cream or something else they like.