And it also ads on it.

Really Microsoft? Do you really need all the ads revenue from the weather app?

What’s next? Ads on the start menu?

Microsoft absolutely doesn't need it, but I'm guessing the weather app team (or the core filler apps team or whatever team is responsible for it) needs it to juice a metric to make some middle manager happy.

And it makes the middle manager happy because it lets that middle manager report better numbers to their superiors again.

Etc.

It's why all large dysfunctional organisations do self destructive stuff like this.

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SlightlyLeftPad 2 hours ago | parent [-]

“What value are you bringing to the company?” translates to “if you’re not printing money, you lose your job.”

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dasyud 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I once worked on a project where the goal was to improve the reliability of MS Teams. The skip level manager was not happy when we said we cannot estimate what the revenue gain would be because it can't be measured.

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mapontosevenths 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Any manager who doesn't push back when given a perverse incentive should be fired. They are not leaders, they are followers... And not even very good followers.

	▲	mort96 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yet they're the ones who get promoted because their KPIs are the best.

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WakeUpPeople 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> What’s next? Ads on the start menu?

They already exist: https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-11-start-menu-ads-how-to-t...

	▲	_trampeltier 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Don't they even had it earlyer and even let the DNS expire, so someone else could spam the startmenu?

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bossyTeacher 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They do. Never forget, Microsoft's goal is to squeeze as much money from you as possible.

	▲	dabinat an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That’s the goal of every publicly-traded corporation in a mature market. Wall Street demands ever-increasing returns and they can’t grow their customer base much so cost-cutting and fleecing existing customers are the only levers to pull.