>On May 15th I noticed unwanted advertising in Outlook (M365 subscription) - see attached image.
>I suspect it's from Microsoft (it was for Teams). That "notification" bar had an "X" at the right side to close it, which I did - and it hasn't come back since.
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>I should note I already subscribe to Teams.
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>I couldn't find anything on the web about this. I started a support incident with M365 but they're playing dumb.
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>I suspect MS floated it as a trial balloon to see if users would tolerate advertising in Office apps. Or maybe there's a lower-cost version which is supported by ads and they "inadvertently" turned on the ads for premium plans.
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>Has anyone else seen anything similar?

Yeah that has been going on for a few weeks now. I have teams installed -- but there are other things popping up for Insights and such. It's all rather annoying.