[jjgreen]

Microsoft has a licence with the Guardian to publish the news organisation’s journalism. The Guardian article and accompanying poll appeared on Microsoft Start, a news aggregation website and app.

Well then, there's a fairly easy fix.

[rsynnott]

The danger there is that MS ends up only publishing news from outlets who are okay with having this sort of nonsense appear alongside their stories. These would generally be very low-quality outlets. A better resolution for all-concerned (including MS) would be if MS _just stops doing it_.

[jjgreen]

Good luck with that; until they do, the Guardian should revoke their licence rather than moaning about it on their own pages.

[rsynnott]

Oh, yeah, in the Guardian's shoes I'd definitely be looking at pulling the license. But if everyone does that it's not a great outcome for anyone, unfortunately.