Is anyone else exhausted by the constant barrage of "personalized" experiences? Its always been about click rate for advertisers, but now they push their monetization model as a feature and it just feels draining.
I'm surprised that MS didn't say Making it Easier, Faster, Better, More Open, and those things.
Computers are pretty good at telling you what you want to know, because they work off of your existing feedback. What they're terrible at is telling you what you should know, and what is important.
If the same systems that recommend the news were used to deliver the weather, every forecast would be "Sunny and 72 degrees." In other words, useless.
Maybe not this specific instance but in general having 5 newspapers to choose from and 15 channels was awful compared to now.