Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
This, and every other screw-up in the same vein, is why those of us old enough to remember the Halloween documents don&#x27;t buy the whole &quot;new Microsoft&quot; thing.<p>Want to get me to try Edge? Great -- instead of a passive-aggressive ad, try telling me how it&#x27;s better than Firefox and why I&#x27;d like to use it instead. What will it get me? Better privacy? Better performance? Better development tools?<p>Cynically, it&#x27;s amazing that Microsoft collects so much personal data about each user -- and yet its &quot;target&quot; ads are hopelessly generic and tasteless.<p>Also, leaving the matter of whether or not I should even be seeing ads after I paid for the damn thing aside, the company that brought us Internet Explorer is the last one that should crack jokes about other browsers, even if they&#x27;re good (which this one isn&#x27;t).