Security News > 2022 > November > Microsoft is showing ads in the Windows 11 sign-out menu
Microsoft is now promoting some of its products in the sign-out flyout menu that shows up when clicking the user icon in the Windows 11 start menu.
Redmond has pushed ads within the user interface of Microsoft Office apps or other Windows apps before.
Months earlier, in March, Windows Insiders started seeing ads for some Microsoft products in the File Explorer app.
Two years ago, the Windows 10 Wordpad application showed ads pushing Microsoft's free Office web apps in its menu bar.
Microsoft was also caught advertising its Microsoft Edge web browser in the Windows 10 Start Menu when users searched for competing browsers.
Some of these advertisement tests also had unintended consequences: Microsoft accidentally broke the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar while testing Microsoft Teams ads on Windows Insider builds systems.
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