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Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 (www.neowin.net)

submitted 3 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Let's put it this way; when Microsoft announced its plans to start adding features to Windows 10 once again, despite the operating system's inevitable demise in October 2025, everyone expected slightly different things to see ported over from Windows 11. Sadly, the latest addition to Windows 10 is one of the most annoying changes coming from Windows 11's Start menu.

Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced a so-called "Account Manager" for Windows 11 that appears on the screen when you click your profile picture on the Start menu. Instead of just showing you buttons for logging out, locking your device or switching profiles, it displays Microsoft 365 ads. All the actually useful buttons are now hidden behind a three-dot submenu (apparently, my 43-inch display does not have enough space to accommodate them). Now, the "Account Manager" is coming to Windows 10 users.

The change was spotted in the latest Windows 10 preview builds from the Beta and Release Preview Channels. It works in the same way as Windows 11, and it is disabled by default for now because the submenu with sign-out and lock buttons does not work.

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[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah yeah, Linux is our saviour.

I call bullshit. Charge Microsoft criminally. Sue them into the ground! We will never get enough people to truly harm them just by leaving, so we need to FUCKING DESTROY ANY COMPANY THAT PULLS THIS BULLSHIT!

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[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

I'm not partitioning my system, I'm getting a clean slate.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Chilling in Windows 7

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Keep that system airgapped.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago

they've already been doing this on windows 10 though.

Adguard for windows!

Sorry I have Tourette's

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Classic Start says nah.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

Classic Shell is awful as it can be.

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm unironically beginning to view Microsoft as one of my favorite companies. They treat their cattle just right. Hopefully they'll start arbitrarily deleting local files.

Is there anything the cattle won't tolerate? LETS FIND OUT

[–] superkret@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully they’ll start arbitrarily deleting local files.

They already do that. If you click "yes" on everything they recommend like good cattle, they'll upload the contents of your user folders to OneDrive and delete the local copies.

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago (6 children)

🐧

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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well.. it's time to HOST style AdBlock to shine baby...
If you use HAGEZI Ultimate Aggressive, 1Host Pro, StevenBlack, & Hblock filters in your machine, you practically immune to Microsoft ads

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago

or just swich away and let them have their little sandbox to themselves

[–] varjen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Paying for an OS that phones home with incredible amounts of telemetry where you have to run adblock to get rid of the built in ads is just silly.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

Now I know what the menu is when clicking the profile picture. I wondered if I was going insane and misremembered how to log out. :|

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