Way too much for our liking, and it’s the Home page that’s our main issue. In short, the final incarnation of the Settings panel when it’s implemented may be very different to what we see here.Īs it stands, though – in these leaked screenshots – there’s a fair old chunk of the Home page dedicated to these ads. And there may be the ability to turn off these ads, too, as Deskmodder points out. Now, we don’t know if any of these latest moves in testing (and still hidden in preview, in this case) will come through to the release build of Windows 11 – though badging in the Start menu has been rolled out in a limited fashion to the finished version of the OS. Particularly the efforts to try and get those using Windows 11 with a local account to sign up for a Microsoft Account, and tie their OS installation to that. Microsoft calls this ‘badging’ – a name coined for the same kind of ads that appear in the Start menu that we’ve seen recently in previews of Windows 11 – and the firm regards these as helpful prompts for the user, but it’s advertising by any other name. We’ve been on the attack against ads in Windows 11 for a while now, as this seems to be a broad concept that’s gathering momentum with test builds of the OS in recent times, so consider this our feedback to Microsoft – don’t do it.
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