M$ is bringing ads to W10. With W11 barely scraping 30% of PC users, the reason they're doing this is all too clear: More fish in the W10 pond, and 0Patch will extend W10 another five years at least, maybe more.
phantomofearth spotted this first and posted on X:
"The Start menu account manager from recent Windows 11 updates is being backported to Windows 10. (present in Beta/RP build 19045.4842, disabled by default.) pic.twitter.com/34Ub68flCt"
— phantomofearth 🌳 (@phantomofearth) August 23, 2024
and Neowin reported on it fully here:
"Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced a so-called "Account Manager" for Windows 11 that appears on the screen when you click your profile picture on the Start menu. Instead of just showing you buttons for logging out, locking your device or switching profiles, it displays Microsoft 365 ads. All the actually useful buttons are now hidden behind a three-dot submenu (apparently, my 43-inch display does not have enough space to accommodate them). Now, the "Account Manager" is coming to Windows 10 users."- Neowin
I'm sick of this M$ nonsense. My/our hope is that Start11/Start10 will neutralize this obnoxious degradation of the W10 Start Menu as it did for W11. Get busy, devs!