Microsoft Monday: Nasty Windows 10 Upgrade Trick, Rocket League Cross-Play, Rumors About New Xboxes

“Microsoft Monday” takes a look back at the past week of news related to Microsoft. This week, “Microsoft Monday” includes details about the nasty Windows 10 upgrade trick, grants for startups focused on providing affordable Internet access, free Xbox One / Xbox 360 games for Live Gold subscribers, Windows Phone job cuts, rumors about “Xbox TV” streaming devices, rumors about two new Xbox consoles, the Minecraft Battle mini game, “dynamically banned” passwords, the MAREA subsea cable partnership, new Acer Windows 10 laptops and Rocket League now supporting cross-play on the Xbox One and PC.
The Nasty Surprise Behind The Windows 10 Upgrade

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YouTube app for Android will get more filter options in search results

Although you can’t argue that YouTube’s Android app is bad or lacking essential functionality, there oddly still are quite a few glaring omissions in it when compared to the service’s website. Not huge things, mind you, rather small features here and there that have the potential of improving the experience for users.

Thankfully it looks like at least one of these will be rectified in the near future, which is great considering that over half of all YouTube views now come from mobile devices. The enterprising folks over at XDA went digging through the APK for the latest version of the app…

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Samsung will start showing ads on its smart TVs in Europe this year

According to a new report quoting “people familiar with the matter”, Samsung is going to make a pretty unpopular move in Europe in the next few months. The Korean company will begin showing ads on its smart TVs in Europe, following a similar rollout that happened in the US in June of last year.

The tile ads will just suddenly appear in the main menu bar of the company’s newest smart TVs. Samsung will use software updates to activate the tile ads on older smart TVs. As for when this will happen, unfortunately there’s no more precise timeline to speak of at the moment than “in the coming…

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