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Advertising in Microsoft Excel
I was just shown an (admittedly low-key) ad for OneDrive Mobile in Excel.
Just under the ribbon bar, where little notifications bars sometimes show useful information such as when a file is read-only or if a file needs to be Checked-Out to edit, a grey notification bar popped up an Information icon (blue circle with an 'i' in it) with the following text:
TAKE YOUR FILES WITH YOU View, share and edit files wherever you are with the OneDrive mobile app.
Followed by a button labelled "Download OneDrive".
This is on my work laptop, which has OneDrive installed and running.
I don't like this. Maybe I'm oversensitive because I also don't like OneDrive and I don't like advertising. Is this new? Slippery slopes aren't a valid point of argument, but this is yet another step, of many, down said slope.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoYes and my Ubuntu motd advertises some premium service of theirs. I can choose to be outraged or not outraged, and my life is better if I choose the latter.
- callamdelaney 1y agoJust use arch
- tempacc_3839 1y agoJust use mint
- szszrk 1y agoIn contrary to other comments, keep using Ubuntu, just use CTRL+l. ... or change MOTD (/etc/default/motd-news) I'd rather bash Ubuntu for more controversial actions, like pushing snapd by default. Or pretending apps are .deb packages while they are snaps in disguise.
- firefax 1y agoWhy not just use plain Debian? Uses same package manager etc w/o these... "features".
- anon1395 1y ago> Is this new? No, Office has been like this since 2016, where you can only autosave on OneDrive.
- callamdelaney 1y agoThat is utterly hilarious. As if somehow the cloud enables autostave more capably than say, your ssd. Microsoft really is a shitshow.
- markus_zhang 1y agoIt has been there for a while. On reason or another, I'm glad I don't need to use Office anymore.