Android "kapert" sharing menu from Microsoft for advertising its own apps

The image of the Redmond company has improved considerably in recent years. Microsoft has been "cool" for some time now or is no longer a gluttonous monopolist. If this should remain the case, the company should rather avoid tricks such as the following.

For virtually all users, the biggest red handkerchief with respect to their mobile device is a bloatware or preinstalled software that ends up on the device or tries to slip in without their involvement. The latter is currently used by Microsoft in a way unlikely to be popular.

Because Microsoft wants to give users who have installed the companion for the smartphone or an office application, tips "useful" on applications they could use otherwise. Because in the menus of sharing and "opening with", the smartphone offers its own applications for file extensions such as .pptx, .xlxs or .docx, ie. PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
Microsoft suggests "open with" its own applications
This option is also available if the badociated application is not already installed on the smartphone of the user. In this case, next to the name of the application, you will find an "Install" in parentheses, as indicated by the Android font.

The behavior is not new, it appeared a few weeks ago. At that time, your cell phone was still in beta. Your phone was still in beta. In addition, users who use office applications on their smartphones less often are rarely the users.

Too many "good"

But Microsoft goes even further: because we also make "useful" suggestions when sharing images and suggest the installation of OneDrive. Photo sharing is in contrast to Word and Co., a standard activity on the mobile device. So you can experience it a lot more often and will certainly find it too intrusive.

Currently, this behavior is limited to Android Q (Beta). Microsoft is the first application provider to try such "tips". Android police say that it is not very annoying at the moment, insist on "still". Because if other suppliers discovered it, it could quickly become unbearable.



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