Windows 10’s bundled Solitaire includes advertisements

Solitaire has been part of the Windows experience for as long as I can remember, and it has been 100 percent free throughout that entire time. Regardless of what one says about the game, we have all spent hours trying to master it.

Solitaire lovers’ joy knew no bounds when Microsoft announced that its new Windows 10 OS will come pre-installed with a free Solitaire game.

For many people already running Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, it is free to upgrade to Windows 10, which means Microsoft has to look somewhere else to make money.

You ought to dish out as little as $1.49 a-month, or go for the yearly plan, priced at $9.99, following which you should get rid of the in-game advertisements.

Hopefully this won’t be the case and at the most these microtransactions will be limited to the OS’s games, but regardless of this Solitaire players are still likely going to be annoyed that their pure card game has been tainted.

Microsoft has promised to be friendlier with the PC gaming crowd, but something is clearly wrong when it can’t get Solitaire right! The Microsoft Solitaire Collection, in fact, which bundles the classic Klondike with other familiar variants like Freecell and Spider Solitaire, tracks stats and logs achievements, and will even have leaderboards at some point.

The virtual card game will still be playable in Windows 10, though non-premium members will be forced to sit through full-screen video advertisements every now and again.

Terry Myserson, head of Windows at Microsoft claims that a new era is upon us following the launch of Windows 10.

In-app purchases are common in mobile games.