Microsoft is going back to their old ways by introducing advertising into their apps, or what is the same thing, spambecause no one wants to see something like that not only in free apps, but also in the ones you’ve paid for.

History repeats. There are quite a few users of Microsoft software, specifically its office suite, who decry the look these days ads embedded in Microsoft Office, which nasty invasive advertising in software of questionable origin. However, this is happening with one of the company’s best positioned and valued products.

In fact, history repeats itself as it is, and that is that Microsoft drags a sad history of spam into its software that goes back more than a decade, and few of them were services and applications that were exempt from it, and although maybe you mean free services like Outlook where advertising might be justified, it’s nothing like that.

In a brief review of this blemish on the company’s history, we saw an ad in the Windows Start menu that assumes the user has paid for a system license… even though the terms of use give Microsoft the right to do what you want.

In another way, we’ve also seen Microsoft put advertising in the Android menu as well (of course, its Android apps). What if they did the same thing in WordPad, the closest example to the current one, although Microsoft Office was not spared.

In fact, going back to current news, the ads you saw appear sandwiched between the Microsoft Office toolbar and the document. All those who were condemned appeared in Microsoft Office 2021, promoting Microsoft Office 365, with messages of various types. For example:

“LIMITED OFFER. Get 3 months of Microsoft 365 Family for just $0.99. banner of spam which can be seen in the image, one of the shots shared the most by those who share it. “What a disappointment,” he says in his tweet. Lee Holmes, Microsoft employee as a security manager for Microsoft Azure and a PowerShell developer. Words are useless.

Of course, the same people in charge of such scams excuse it by assuring that Microsoft does not show advertising, only recommendations, or that it is not advertising, only experiments.