The software giant, Microsoft, is well known all over the world for various of its products and platforms. Here we can highlight your Windows operating system or the popular Office office suitesoftware that, by the way, as most of you already know, is paid.
The fact that we find advertising embedded in certain free solutions, to a certain extent could have its logic. However, that a company like the one mentioned microsoft uses certain marketing and advertising practices in its paid products, it is something that is quite annoying to many of its users. Despite complaints and reports about these advertisements that over the years have been sent to the company, it seems that they do not learn.
And it is that a new movement related to these advertising techniques has just been detected in another of its most popular and used products. It is something that we are going to show you below and that refers to its well-known office suite. From what has been detected at this time, Microsoft is sending advertisements to customers who have paid for the Office 2021 suite. It is worth mentioning that these advertisements try to encourage those who have paid for these programs to subscribe to Microsoft 365.
It must be taken into account that today there are several business models in everything that refers to the software sector. Some range from the simple purchase of the product license, while others go through temporary subscriptions. Of course, there are also applications and games that are free, but in many cases include advertising. But of course, what is clear is that, if we have spent the money on a program, it should be free of ads.
Microsoft wants you to migrate to Office by subscription
But as Microsoft has already shown us on more occasions than we would like, this is not always the case in their projects. Right now this is happening in a clear case with Office 2021. The firm itself is fully aware of the inconvenience it causes when using some of its products, such as Windows 11such as advertising platforms.
But the well-known operating system is not the only one. Now those who have purchased a license for the latest version of the office suite, receive advertising messages for the subscription version.
It is worth mentioning that these ads appear in a bar located just below the tool bar of the main interface. Through this announcement, the company invites users to try three months of Microsoft 365 Family for $0.99. Of course, many of those who have already paid for the license for Office 365 are very upset about this movement of the firm. More after choosing to make a one-time purchase of the productivity suite instead of paying a monthly or yearly subscription.
All this despite the fact that in this case the software giant uses the ads to offer a significant discount to those who are willing to upgrade to a subscription plan. We have seen similar situations in the past in the Windows system itself or in your web browser, Edge.
