The “Suggested” section on the Windows 10 Start Menu used to just promote its own apps, reports MSPowerUser. But for some users (who haven’t disable Microsoft’s “Suggestions”), that menu is now showing a new kind of ad listing:
The listing displays “Still using Firefox? Microsoft Edge is here”, to all users of the former — even with the latter already installed. The ad provides a link to download the chromium-based browser. Undoubtedly, the suggestions won’t end here. Microsoft is reportedly planning to sprawl similar ads out to Wordpad, to encourage users to download official Office apps. The Windows Latest blog points out that Microsoft’s “Suggestions” can be “permanently disabled with a few tweaks unlike the Chrome ads in Google search results.”
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