Microsoft, as it is known, develops its applications for mobile devices with Android and iPhone. The company seems to be experimenting with all sorts of ideas to increase the number of its users on these two platforms.
The latest example is Microsoft apps for Android, which have started showing ads in the Share menu in an attempt to persuade users to install other apps developed by Redmond developers.
Specifically, Android Police found that when you use a Microsoft application and try to share a file, the Sharing menu, which usually displays icons of applications already installed on your device, includes shortcuts to other Android applications developed by Microsoft and which are not installed.
Clicking one of these icons, which usually says the name of the app (Installation), takes you to the Google Play Store, where you can download and install the Microsoft app.
The ads are not necessarily annoying, as they are placed in the Share feature, but they fill the screen with icons, especially if you use a few company applications.
The worst that can happen according with AP, is that more and more developers can follow in Microsoft's footsteps and start advertising their own applications from the Share menu.
If this starts to happen, the share function on Android will become very difficult to use, as you will try to find the application you are interested in among many others.
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