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Our thanks go to Steve, for sharing his trials and tribulations when the
ceiling came down.

Dave Robb

Microsoft is pushing Windows 10 with annoying ads

With the immanent arrival of the latest update for Windows 10 Mi-
crosoft is again in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Windows 10 has developed at a rapid pacewith feature releases, but it
looks like there’s a price to pay for this new “Windows as a service”
world. Microsoft has gradually been pushing Windows 10 with annoying
ads. The first emerged on the lock screen as “tips,” and then there was
the bundling of Candy Crush with the OS, and now Microsoft has started
blasting notifications into the task bar and File Explorer.

Windows 10 users have been complaining in recent weeks about
OneDrive notifications in the File Explorer, encouraging them to pay for
an Office 365 subscription. The task bar notifications that prompt people
to switch to Edge when they use Chrome, or install Microsoft’s Personal
Shopping Assistant for Chrome, have been appearing for months. Mi-
crosoft even decided to use notifications to warn Chrome users about
battery drain. These types of notifications not only spoil the experience
of using Windows 10’s built-in features, but they’re an annoying distrac-
tion.

Now Microsoft is planning to preload another app in Windows 10: Sling
TV. While only US Windows 10 users will get Sling TV preloaded without
the necessary subscription, it will sit alongside Candy Crush and Solitaire
as other examples of what will soon be described as bloatware. Thank-