Some feel that it's well within Microsoft's rights to advertise its products within Windows 10, while others feel that the company should just butt out and leave customers alone. Like Microsoft's previous attempts at promoting its products, reaction has been mixed.
Those Office 365 subscriptions represent a sweet source of recurring revenue for the software giant versus the one-time payment of previous standalone versions of Office.
Of course, once users get used to playing around with the free versions, the company would love for you to pay for a subscription to Office 365. Try Word Excel, and PowerPoint for free online.Some of the language used in the ads includes: The ads appear directly below the toolbar, and clicking on the link sends you straight to freebie versions of the Office online apps. In an effort to prod users into trying its more capable Word products, Microsoft has begun inserting ads into WordPad that promote the free version of its Office applications online. Variants 1-6 /TdYOuKkLZc- Rafael Rivera January 20, 2020 Screenshot shows 6 experimental variants. WordPad lives within this kind of weird "no man's land" between the no frills plain text editor that is Notepad, and a more full-featured document processor like Microsoft Word.īREAKSCLUSIVE: Microsoft WordPad is getting a new feature! An ad for Office web apps! Today, we're learning that Microsoft's penchant for ads is switching to focus on an unloved and relatively obscure member of the apps included by default with Windows 10: WordPad.
Users took issue not only with the fact that they were seeing ads in a product that they had already paid for - Windows 10 - and the fact that there was no way to remove them. Back in December, Microsoft came under fire for what many called "deceptive" ads within its Mail and Calendar apps for Windows 10 that promoted Outlook for smartphones.
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