Advertising in Windows has reached an exasperating new low

Enlarge / Advertisements? In my Explorer? It’s more common than you think. (credit: A reddit user with a name that’s frankly distasteful in and of itself.)

I don’t know what triggers OneDrive advertisements in Explorer. I don’t know if they appear in Windows 10 stable builds or just Insider Previews as a taste of things to come. I don’t know that I even care any more.

But come on.

Nobody in Redmond thought, “Gosh, that’s a little distasteful”? I mean, “Let’s just turn our operating system into a billboard!” offends nobody?