Windows Product Scout
Update: Please note that Microsoft has removed the product scout website again. It is no longer available.
The Windows Product Scout is a new addition to Microsoft's Windows homepage.
The free service offers product and software recommendations on a weekly basis. All item suggestions are fully compatible with Windows 7 and take advantage of the operating system's feature set.
For some, it looks like clever placed advertisement, and that is surely one of the ideas behind Windows Product Scout.
But the new service can offer advice that some users need when making decisions to buy new hardware for the operating system.
The suggested products are displayed in groups with four items displayed at the same time. Each item leads to a short description on page with links to buy now and visit the manufacturer.
New products are added to Windows Product Scout on a regular basis. All products are certified to work with Windows 7, which means that users do not have to consider compatibility problems when making purchases.
Here is the listing of all available product groups:
Featured
Device Stage
Windows Media Center
Play To
Windows Connect Now
Windows Touch
Connect And Communicate
Media and Entertainment
Photos and Creativity
Printing and Productivity
There are also options to search and filter items, as the default display mode is not providing the best overview of the recommended product items.
It is possible to filter by type, device or Windows 7 feature. That could be interesting for some users who like to use a specific feature but have a hard time finding a device or software that is fully compatible with the feature.
Then again, a simple search on the Internet may reveal similar information.
Head over to the Windows Product Scout page at Microsoft to take a look for yourself if this sounds interesting enough to give it a try.
Update: Microsoft appears to have removed the product scout website again from the Windows website. while not entirely the same, you can check out Microsoft produced hardware devices here instead.
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.