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Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

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Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu.

Luckily you can disable these ads, or “recommendations” as Microsoft calls them. If you’ve installed the latest KB5036980 update then head into Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.” While KB5036980 is optional right now, Microsoft will push this to all Windows 11 machines in the coming weeks.

Microsoft’s move to enable ads in the Windows 11 Start menu follows similar promotional spots in the Windows 10 lock screen and Start menu. Microsoft also started testing ads inside the File Explorer of Windows 11 last year before disabling the experiment and saying the test was “not intended to be published externally.” Hopefully that experiment remains very much an experiment.

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[-] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Good thing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS comes out tomorrow. I’ll be doing a reinstall on my machine and sticking with it until the next LTS release in two years.

[-] morriscox@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

We need to hunt down whoever these ads are working on.

[-] markpaskal@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

I just can't stand the lack of hibernation or hybrid suspend on laptops with Linux. Otherwise I'd much rather have a Linux distro on my nice laptop and windows in a VM if at all.

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[-] graeghos_714@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I got my first notification on my Win10 Pro box today about support ending too

[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I'm on 10 still. (And if I wasn't a gamer and sucker for games that don't work on Linux - I would be on Arch)

[-] Eximius@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Proton works wonderfully these days.

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