alt Hacker NewsAnd it also ads on it.
Really Microsoft? Do you really need all the ads revenue from the weather app?
What’s next? Ads on the start menu?
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WakeUpPeople • yesterday at 4:31 PM
> What’s next? Ads on the start menu?
They already exist: https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-11-start-menu-ads-how-to-t...
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ColdStream • today at 12:26 AM
Yeah it is actually really sad when a company the size of MS still bows down to the great god Advertising!
Avert ye eyes for there are no morals in these bad lands of Redmond!
bossyTeacher • yesterday at 5:09 PM
They do. Never forget, Microsoft's goal is to squeeze as much money from you as possible.
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Microsoft absolutely doesn't need it, but I'm guessing the weather app team (or the core filler apps team or whatever team is responsible for it) needs it to juice a metric to make some middle manager happy.
And it makes the middle manager happy because it lets that middle manager report better numbers to their superiors again.
Etc.
It's why all large dysfunctional organisations do self destructive stuff like this.