Microsoft Workplace customers have reported seeing a raft of sneaky adverts for Microsoft 365 showing of their work.

A number of customers contacted BleepingComputer (opens in new tab) with pictures of a brand new pop-up promoting Microsoft 365 Household subscriptions inside Microsoft Phrase paperwork.

The “Restricted Time Provide” promotes three months of Microsoft 365 for “$$0.99” main some to assume it’s a rip-off, with different customers reporting completely different wording that claims signing as much as Microsoft 365, “is like getting six subscriptions in a single.”

Microsoft 365 adverts

Nevertheless what has notably aggravated customers is that the advert makes use of the identical format and elegance as that seen when asking customers to allow macros, probably that means some absent-minded customers could click on with out realizing.

It stays to be seen if the advert is a part of a wider-running promotion, or simply affecting a number of customers, however TechRadar Professional has contacted Microsoft to ask for extra particulars.

The information is the most recent situation to have an effect on Microsoft 365 and Workplace customers in current months as the corporate appears to be like to drive extra customers in direction of its platform.

The corporate has been making an attempt to encourage upgrading to Home windows 11 for a while – though the most recent figures from AdDuplex present Home windows 11 is operating on lower than 1 / 4 of all PCs. 

The corporate additionally not too long ago needed to row again on some plans to chop off some generations of Workplace software program, with assist initially set to finish for Workplace 2016 and Workplace 2019 from October 2023, that means customers could be unable to make use of the software program to connect with Microsoft 365 companies, together with Trade On-line.

Microsoft can also be rolling out a brand new dashboard that may spotlight metrics like utilization, in-product suggestions, and Web Promoter Rating values to assist make monitoring simpler for IT admins.

The tech big has responded to feedback that giant organizations discover it difficult to watch the deployment of cloud companies like Microsoft 365, as a result of knowledge was both housed in numerous areas or not even accessible.

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