Microsoft says Win11 Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979251/microsoft-file-explorer-ads-windows-11-testing

by weinzierl • 4 years ago

49 23 4 years ago

sschueller• 4 years ago

Why would you build such a thing if you didn't intend to use it?

It could have been intended to be reviewed internally but then somehow was made public by mistake in the insider builds.

Where I work we write a lot of experimental features, behind feature flags which never end up being made available to customers.

Could of course be that they are just making it up. If this was an actual mistake it sounds like their QA is messed up.

bluefirebrand• 4 years ago

I have been vocal against use of feature flags at my workplace, partly because of the risk of accidentally putting a feature live in a production or other client-facing environment.

Just this morning I got to ask "Why is this feature flag enabled in prod" to the stunned faces of people who had insisted that would never happen.

Maybe the same thing played out at Microsoft here.

daveslash• 4 years ago

Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?

shaggie76• 4 years ago

*It was to be announced at the party congress on Monday.*

belval• 4 years ago

My favorite conspiracy theory is that they do plan to add ads in the file explorer but only in 2-3 years. They leak it now so they get some flak but they just say "oh no we won't actually do it". Then when they actually roll it out people don't get as angry as the first time and they just leave it.

lloydatkinson• 4 years ago

Like when they said multiple times "Windows 10 is the last version of Windows as it will be a rolling release" and then pretended after they never said that in order to satisfy some product manager's desire to release a new version so they could add it to their resume.

shamiln• 4 years ago

Did they actually say that?

Nextgrid• 4 years ago

I suspect that changed once macOS went to version 11.

omgmajk• 4 years ago

I think this is pretty true, it's not unheard of before anyways.

walrus01• 4 years ago

Please drink a verification can (from 9 years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png

KONAir• 4 years ago

Meh, I can live with it if OS becomes free.

fsflover3• 4 years ago

Linux is already free, so what's the problem?

paulryanrogers2• 4 years ago

Incompatibility, battery life, impossible number of combinations to support, need to use terminal, etc

SanchoPanda• 4 years ago

This got me thinking that MS might actually be telling the truth here. Maybe they only plan to enable it for pirated copies.

raxxorrax• 4 years ago

Pirated versions would be the first to rip that out completely.

RealStickman_• 4 years ago

Windows is already free

nix23• 4 years ago

Oh it was just for the developers at microsoft..that makes sense ;)

Microsoft says Win11 Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

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