Microsoft succumbs to public outrage, removes some ads from Windows 11 Weather app
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Microsoft recently discontinued the standalone Weather UWP app for Windows 11 in favor of the web-based MSN.com weather web page.
PWAs are gaining popularity because of their efficient use of caching, which allows them to be smaller and use less bandwidth than traditional desktop or UWP apps. The switch to a PWA, however, has resulted in in-app advertising and a significant slowdown.
After the update, both free users and Microsoft 365 subscribers saw an increase in advertising on the previously ad-free Weather client. Many Weather app users vented their frustrations about the "ads" in the app in the Feedback Hub.
Microsoft has quietly decided to remove the update from the app's home screen in response to the widespread backlash it received on social media and its feedback platform.
This means that the Weather app's home screen no longer displays banner ads. However, we found that it persists on other Windows 11 Weather pages, including the forecast page and Life (Health and Safety dashboard), in our tests.
The Weather app's home page no longer features advertisements. | Photo: Thewindowsfan.com
Recognizing the concerns many have raised on social media, the tech giant hopes to find a middle ground between user experience and revenue generation.
The Weather app's home page no longer features advertisements. | Photo: Thewindowsfan.com
Although we haven't heard anything official from Microsoft, we've been told that the ads will be visible in the Weather app on all Windows versions. Both Windows 11 and Windows 10 are covered here. According to the same source, these advertisements will be targeted based on your interests, with cookies from your MSN history being used to do so.
Ads in apps like Weather are disappointing, despite Microsoft's efforts to show it values user feedback by reducing them in one of the inbox apps.
Ads in other apps like Microsoft Edge
Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to place advertisements on the desktop.
Previous in the year, Microsoft tried out a banner in Chromium Edge as an experiment that blocks the download of Google Chrome with a full-screen advertisement for Microsoft's browser.
Edge's address bar displays a second alert that looks like a pop-up and activating Google Bard's AI chat prompts (Bing). You can safely ignore the warning this time around and keep using Bard, but the next time you access Google's assistant, the same message will appear again.
A quick look at Feedback Hub reveals that Windows ad frustration is on the rise amongst users. Microsoft has come under fire for its intrusive full-screen ads, which some say will discourage users from switching to Edge and other native apps.
There will be significant alterations to the Windows Insider Program, as recently announced by Microsoft. That's what the industry's biggest company claimed, It promised to start beta-testing the next Windows version via a new channel called "Canary". It is clear to Windows Latest that this would set the stage for Windows 12 and beyond.
Microsoft announced in an email to select testers that anyone using Build 25000 or later would be upgraded to the Canary channel immediately. Users can rest assured that future major updates will continue to be delivered via the Dev channel.
Canary, according to Microsoft's definition, is for "very experienced" users who are willing to preview "platform changes" early in the development cycle. Microsoft warned that "The Canary can be unstable and are released with limited to no documentation" in an email I received.
Free USB drive for beta testers, courtesy of Microsoft | Photo: thewindo
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I saw some internal documents and found references to them in Windows 11 preview builds, which formed the basis of our reporting. During a Windows Insider webcast, Microsoft hinted at a major'refresh' to File Explorer by saying the program would be migrated to the WinAppSDK framework in order to gain access to additional application programming interfaces (APIs).
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ChatGPT has mined its discarded data for insights as far back as September 2021. Now that it supports plugins, ChatGPT can act as a browser, visiting and scraping websites in real time. Microsoft is bringing the ChatGPT plugins that OpenAI has been developing to Windows 11.
Windows 11 will support ChatGPT add-ons via Copilot for Windows, a desktop OS that combines the features of ChatGPT and Bing AI.
Microsoft has decided to adopt the OpenAI-created plugin standard for ChatGPT, paving the way for compatibility between ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Windows Copilot. In addition, Microsoft announced its plans to make Bing the default search engine in Microsoft's ChatGPT.
This change also opens the door for programmers to create additional plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot, such as ChatGPT and Bing. Connectors for the Power Platform and Teams message expansions are also in the works for this package.
Microsoft provides a toolkit for
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