Microsoft seems to be testing a brand new sort of advert inside File Explorer on Windows 11. Microsoft MVP and Twitter user Florian Beaubois found an advert within the newest take a look at construct of Windows 11, prompting customers to take a look at the Microsoft Editor. While the advertisements may need appeared for some Windows 11 customers, Microsoft says it was a mistake.

“This was an experimental banner that was not intended to be published externally and was turned off,” says Brandon LeBlanc, senior program supervisor for Windows, in a press release to The Verge.

While the advertisements weren’t meant to be examined externally, it’s clear Microsoft is able to operating them inside Windows 11, and the corporate’s transient assertion doesn’t rule out advertisements showing within the File Explorer sooner or later.

This isn’t the primary time Microsoft has positioned advertisements inside File Explorer, both. The software program maker added a big banner advert to the Windows 10 File Explorer in 2017, selling subscription choices for its OneDrive cloud storage service. While the advertisements will be simply dismissed, they’re nonetheless a irritating expertise in an working system that’s historically been ad-free.

Microsoft has been experimenting with advertisements inside Windows for a decade now. It already locations advertisements on the Windows 10 lock display screen and within the Start menu, and there have been lots situations of annoying pop-up advertisements within the taskbar, too. Lots of Windows 8’s built-in apps additionally had advertisements inside them.

Sadly, Microsoft isn’t alone in promoting its personal companies in its working system or apps. Apple spams you with presents for Apple Music, Apple Fitness, and iCloud when you purchase a brand new iPhone, and we’ve even seen full-screen advertisements for Apple TV Plus when you personal Apple’s TV {hardware}. Google will hound you with pop-up advertisements till you give in and purchase a YouTube Premium subscription.