<p>Just when we thought there would be no more Microsoft ads for its services in Windows 11, the company found other possible spots.</p>
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<p>The Redmond giant has started with the test of placing ads in the Settings menu of Windows 11 by promoting its services and benefits of Microsoft account. The ongoing &#8220;feature&#8221; testing is now active in preview builds for a few weeks and now it&#8217;s rolling out to more users for evaluation.</p>
<p>Luckily the testing is being done in the Canary build which is the most experimental version of Windows, so chances are that it may never come alive.</p>
<p>Albacore (@thebookisclosed) user posted several screenshots on his Twitter account showing the new ads placed in the Windows 11 Settings page that could be reserved for ads and general system notifications.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Updates were made to the Microsoft Account portion of the upcoming Settings Homepage, here&#39;s how it looks now + a preview of end of product support notices that can appear in the Account page <a href="https://t.co/DwYEKqOb9n">pic.twitter.com/DwYEKqOb9n</a></p>
<p>&mdash; λlbacore ð¥ (@thebookisclosed) <a href="https://twitter.com/thebookisclosed/status/1654616533455327232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>As seen in the screenshots, a settings page now shows an ad for a Microsoft 365 free trial. Other ads are related to the benefits of using Microsoft accounts.</p>
<p>Microsoft was already pushing its users into using Microsoft accounts on Windows 11, replacing local accounts, and now they went one step further by pushing Microsoft 365 accounts.</p>
<p>Additionally, the company announced that some links posted in Teams and Outlook would only open in the Edge browser, thus ignoring system default settings in favor of company products.</p>
<p>With this move, Microsoft obviously wants to leverage its huge Windows OS market share for selling more services to Windows 11 customers.</p>