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I think people have a bit of a popular misconception about the Explorer advertising thing. What's happening is that MS is adding a banner to Explorer advertisin

I think people have a bit of a popular misconception about the Explorer advertising thing. What's happening is that MS is adding a banner to Explorer advertising paid OneDrive subscriptions. I totally agree that it's massively inappropriate, but I do think that most people are imagining third-party advertising which is not what's happening - a lot of people might not consider the current situation to be an "ad" necessarily since it is pushing a subscription for OneDrive, a Microsoft product that you already have installed. It's more of an in-app purchase kind of offer.

sbarre 9y ago
Yeah I don't understand why people are freaking out about this. I know the icon is there, but I never "see" it and I'll never click on it.. So who cares..
badthingfactory 9y ago
As-is, I don't think it's a big deal. This is a slippery slope though. Look at what cable television has become. You pay for the product and they shove advertisements down your throat. Satellite radio is doing the same thing.
Karunamon 9y ago
I don't particular care who is trying to sell me shit in the file manager, I care that shit is being sold in the file manager. In an operating system I paid $100 for. Unacceptable.
- Rusky 9y ago
  The shit being sold in the file manager is... space in the cloud for your files. Which is managed by the file manager.
  - Karunamon 9y ago
    Which I already paid for as part of the operating system. If they want to advertise to me, they can give me my money back.
RcouF1uZ4gsC 9y ago
If this is all it is, then it is not unprecedented. I remember that Windows 95 did something similar with MSN (which at that time was also a dialup service).
- jcrawfordor 9y ago
  Yeah, I recently installed Windows 95 in a VM to run some old software and I was actually quite surprised at how hard it pushes MSN - the "connect to the internet" wizard it presents basically asks if you're on a LAN and, if you say no, tells you to call MSN to sign up.

sbarre 9y ago

Yeah I don't understand why people are freaking out about this. I know the icon is there, but I never "see" it and I'll never click on it.. So who cares..

badthingfactory 9y ago

As-is, I don't think it's a big deal. This is a slippery slope though. Look at what cable television has become. You pay for the product and they shove advertisements down your throat. Satellite radio is doing the same thing.

Karunamon 9y ago

I don't particular care who is trying to sell me shit in the file manager, I care that shit is being sold in the file manager. In an operating system I paid $100 for. Unacceptable.

Rusky 9y ago
The shit being sold in the file manager is... space in the cloud for your files. Which is managed by the file manager.
- Karunamon 9y ago
  Which I already paid for as part of the operating system. If they want to advertise to me, they can give me my money back.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 9y ago

If this is all it is, then it is not unprecedented. I remember that Windows 95 did something similar with MSN (which at that time was also a dialup service).

jcrawfordor 9y ago
Yeah, I recently installed Windows 95 in a VM to run some old software and I was actually quite surprised at how hard it pushes MSN - the "connect to the internet" wizard it presents basically asks if you're on a LAN and, if you say no, tells you to call MSN to sign up.