- Windows 10 and 11 users get an advertisement
- It pushes the most expensive version of the game via a pop-up
- This would happen for some time now, in addition to other similar game promotions that are pure and simple announcements that cross a line
Microsoft seems to become more desperate with advertisements these days, and more frequently, pushing Windows games elsewhere, because I have just been confronted with a new ad for Adoudows 10.
Yes, my Windows 11 upgrading calendar is working behind my scheduled chronology, and I’m still on Windows 10, but not much longer, because the end of life of the operating system is only six months old now. And I will move particularly quickly if Microsoft will push popups like this on my face via the notification center on the right side of the office. (That said, this promotion apparently also strikes Windows 11 PCs, and I will come back).
The notification is labeled “suggested” and concerns the PREMIUM ADLUED edition, asking me to “forge my destiny” and to click on a button that says “buy now” (or alternately, there is a button to “reject”).
By clicking on the Buy option, you send to the Microsoft Xbox shop, where you can buy the independent advertisement game, or have access to it by registering for the pass of the game.
As you can see in the Post Reddit below, I am not the only person to witness this announcement either. Indeed, this promotion is currently the cycles, and was also in the month or two, in Windows 11 and Windows 10 – since Avowed was almost published.
I restarted my PC and it appeared. Microsoft must be really desperate to push admitted. And this is the first time that I have seen them suggest a game through the notification of the operating system on Windows 10.
Analysis: pure and simple announcements are an area without go in a paid operating system, Microsoft
This admitted announcement presents itself on other promotional activities related to games, such as the same type of notification pushing Windows 11 users to buy the Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Vault edition.
It is interesting to note that Microsoft advertises Avowed’s premium publishing, which is a more expensive considerable song (almost 30%), and which is not worth it for most people (because it only adds skins and a digital delivery art). I think it should be linked to the standard edition, really, so that people look at the basic product.
At this point, there may be some of you by shouting at your instructor (I cannot hear you accidentally) and reprimand me so as not to deactivate Microsoft’s suggestions in Windows 10 (or even Windows 11 for these users). Well, I continue to turn on because otherwise I don’t see what kind of nonsense Microsoft draws like that, then write about it. Hopefully the company has persuaded this idea, and all similar promotional things that are launching into Windows 10 and 11.
To be fair to Microsoft, at least in this case, if you right click on the notification, there is a link provided right there to “deactivate all the notifications for suggest” and you can do exactly that. So you don’t need your rifle in the Settings application to find this choice and exercise it.
However, these suggestions are activated by default in Windows, and I would say that they should not be. Microsoft would undoubtedly disagree and perhaps in some cases the recommendations can help people – but not in the case of what is clearly an announcement like this avowed popup. There is no doubt that you will help someone make their PC and your data more secure in this scenario, as Microsoft could suggest when it comes to nudging to save your PC via OneDrive.
The truth is that pure and simple advertisements as this is clearly nothing close to the typical veiled recommendations observed in Windows should not occur at all in a paid office operating system, unless the user wants to explicitly and allows them.
