File Explorer fiasco: Window to Microsoft's mixed-up motivations
MS craves extra revenue, but ad pipelines in the OS are hostages to fortune Opinion Queen Elizabeth I is said to have expressed her attitude to her subjects' private beliefs by noting: "I do not seek to open windows to men's souls." Microsoft Windows 11 has few such qualms. A new feature,accidentally enabled in an Insider build, not only opened a channel between the company and the quintessential tool, File Explorer, it then stuffed it with adverts....