Spotify is mysteriously putting in itself onto Home windows 10 and Home windows 11 PCs, showing within the Taskbar whenever you begin up your PC – and I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing this myself.

Beginning up my PC this week, I discovered Spotify’s icon glowing in my Taskbar as different apps had been additionally beginning up. It is an app I take advantage of on my iPhone and Mac day by day, however it’s by no means been on my PC because it’s solely used for video games.

It was the quickest uninstall I’ve finished in recent times, as it is not only a bug, however a possible safety flaw. I did not permit this app to be put in onto my PC, and whereas I’ve reached out to Microsoft for remark, it is made me surprise why this has occurred with out discover.

We have been right here earlier than, however it was with a heads-up

One other state of affairs that springs to thoughts is when Apple and U2 made an settlement to make the band’s album, ‘Songs of Innocence (opens in new tab)‘, obtainable for customers as a giveaway, to mark the discharge of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus fashions in 2014.

Customers weren’t joyful then, both, as some would have a mixture of Euro-Dance albums and U2’s new launch – which might be ice breaker on one finish of the spectrum, and an ungainly dialog on the opposite.

Nonetheless, this could possibly be a function. The Microsoft Retailer has been identified (opens in new tab) to put in apps by itself, with video games and different Microsoft utilities showing in your Taskbar. However the firm hasn’t notified its Home windows customers of Spotify being obtainable via the Retailer this week, so the one response that myself and different customers are experiencing from that is annoyance.

Hopefully, Microsoft will reply to this unusual look of a third-party app quickly, because it could possibly be a PR catastrophe ready to occur.