Of course, you can also find ways right now to get Windows 11 for free or cheap.īoth Windows 10 and Windows 11 have a “Focus Assist” mode, but even with that on, the OS is trying to drive users down a rabbit hole of silliness. Microsoft should either disable these distracting headlines by default or stop charging for its operating system and call it “free with ads.” After all, the company wants PC builders to pay a whopping $139 for a Windows 11 Home license, but then it tries to make money off of those same users by getting them to click on low-quality MSN content that makes money from advertising. But when it’s pumped right into the UI of your operating system, that’s a bridge too far. We expect to see garbage content or promotions for it on social media or on the web. Apparently someone put up a TikTok video claiming that they had been to Hell and the author at Popular Mechanics thought that writing about some random person posting an outrageous TikTok would be a good idea.Īll of these low-quality articles also appear on MSN.com and, by default, on the new tab screen in Microsoft Edge. It’s originally from Popular Mechanics, which I always thought was above this kind of thing, but is the laziest form of non-journalism I’ve seen in a while.
I think that’s because someone – likely the author – keeps changing the dateline to make it appear as if it’s brand new.
The article about Hell keeps popping in my feeds, more than a month after the first time I saw it. Fauci was caught lying, the article it linked to merely pointed out that Fauci was subject to criticism from politicians who think that he’s not telling the truth. On March 9th, a headline in the search box’s “trending news from the web” section had a picture of Fauci with the headline “Hid the COVID truth.” However, when I clicked through to the actual story, its own headline was much less accusatory and read “Fauci Says He's Always Been 'Honest' as COVID Origins Questions Raised.” So, while the headline itself lent the impression that Dr. Fauci’s contributions and I don’t think Windows search box should be either. Can Be MisleadingĪ couple of weeks ago, I saw something in my Windows search box that was a lot worse than distracting: it was a series of dangerous conspiracy theories about former NIH Director Dr. You can turn off the widget entirely, but then you won't get the temperature and precipitation right on your taskbar.
You can turn off the search box’s “search highlights,” but they are enabled by default and you can’t remove all of the headlines from the weather widget. Pumping embarrassing, low-quality news right into utilities like the search box is an unwelcome distraction, especially for someone who is easily distracted by it. Windows is the most popular operating system in the world and people rely on it to get things done.
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