i’m sure the free market will solve this. we just need to wait for a new company to pop up, make a new operating system, ensure windows programs are properly emulated, convince the majority of people and businesses to use it, and then use its new monopoly for good.
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MS screwing us with software. Apple screwing us with hardware upgrades. Linux out there taking all survivors
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Now having Linux install in my machine, I don't have to deal with wins bs ever again. It's great that I made the right decision 5y ago
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High time for another antitrust, huh
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“We are aware of these reports and have paused this notification while we investigate and take appropriate action to address this unintended behavior,” says Caitlin Roulston, director of communications
"""unintended"""?
How do you implement shit like this by mistake and push it out to be executed on people's computers by mistake?
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That's because they're a malware company:
this has been going on in several different forms for years now so I’m just counting the days until the next annoying pop-up appears.
The solution is to not use their products. Use Linux.
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Well windows is malware OS so nothing new
Not saying it's okay in any way but Google does this with Chrome all the time on Amy Google page
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The fact that Microsoft's constantly more aggressive use of their OS platform to artificially push their search and cloud platforms hasn't triggered multiple huge antitrust cases is a pretty dire indicator of how little regulators are willing or able to safeguard the public from monopolistic behavior by large tech companies.
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Install Linux, problem solved
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They need to ask the question "will you ever choose to use a Microsoft browser?" and then remember the answer and stop the nagging. For me the answer is no.
It's Internet Explorer time all over again.
Isn't modern Edge chromium based? I'd understand using Edge back when it was using it's own technology, as much as I hate Microsoft internet browsers, it allowed for optimisations such as better battery life on laptops. But using chromium based Edge, I don't understand it at all. Who wants to use Microsoft flavoured chrome? Yuck.
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When does it stop being "malware-like" and end up being just malware?
Slack successfully made Microsoft stop bundling Teams in Microsoft Office through an anti-competition complaint. I'm surprised Google lets them get away with abusing the Windows product as a platform for promoting a search engine. My best guess for why they don't is that the promotion isn't working.
I need to move my system to linux , however there is data on my system i need to backup, any way I can do that ?.
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i know at some point i'm going to have to switch to linux but i'm lazy and really, really don't want to
i give it like 3 years before i switch
Windows is a malware !
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