![]() ![]() But this only really works in very limited scenarios, where Windows clearly understands the problem and can offer a solution. Part of me thinks that offering a user a solution to a problem makes sense. The gray area, of course, is when Microsoft wants to promote a paid service - say the example above where Microsoft allegedly promoted Microsoft Editor, a paid aspect of Microsoft 365. The Feedback Hub pops up, summarizing what’s there some users read it, while others immediately dismiss it without a second thought. If Feedback Hub was that mechanism, imagine what might happen when updates arrive. Microsoft does publish a big, splashy presentation as the opening page of Microsoft Edge to mark a new feature update, but that’s obviously rare. ![]() Thankfully, we’re no longer seeing suggested apps crop up in the Start menu. Readers have clearly told us that they dislike being distracted by notifications popping up in the oddest of places, like File Explorer. However - and this is a big however! - we also need a simplified, formalized way to handle them. The case, then, is pretty simple: We need these notifications more than ever. I’d like to think that the entire world read our story of Windows 11’s “spring 2022 update,” but that’s obviously not true. But Microsoft currently resides within some weird no-man’s-land where they’ve still committed to an annual feature release - down from two - but have also publicly stated that its developers can and will roll out new features whenever they’d like. The concept benefits both sides: We learn about what new things we can do with the product suite, and Microsoft uses it to justify what is now an ongoing subscription to Microsoft 365.Īds (or in-OS notifications, or whatever you’d prefer to call them) weren’t as necessary throughout the last few years, when Microsoft’s “feature updates” to Windows 10 totaled a few small tweaks each spring and fall. My review of Office 2016, for example, ended it with a long plea that Microsoft do a better job simply telling us what it plans to add to Office. But I’ve been saying as much for the last seven years. I think it’s fair to say that most of PCWorld’s staff vehemently disagrees with me. Mark Hachman / IDG Establishing a dialogue It still is deeply bizarre that Solitaire has ads. ![]()
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