Η Microsoft ως γνωστό, αναπτύσσει τις applications for Android and iPhone mobile devices. The company seems to be experimenting with all kinds of ideas to increase its user base 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 discovered that when you're using a Microsoft app and trying to share a file, the Share menu that usually displays the icons of apps that are already installed on device it also includes shortcuts to other Android apps developed by Microsoft that you don't have installed.
If you click on one of these icons, which usually says the name of the application (Installation), it will take you to Google Play Store, where you can download and install the Microsoft application.
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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