Microsoft accused of malware-like tactics, again, in attempt to push users onto Bing

There's an alternate timeline in which I actually give Bing and Edge a chance because Microsoft's not flinging their feces at their users constantly the way they are now

Really love being free of Windows and this bullshit.

Outlook the other day insisted it was better opening links in Edge instead of my default browser... Yeah, I shut THAT down...

Stop trying to make Bing happen. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

Anyone else notice the search (in windows 10 at least) suddenly being fucking useless? Used to be able to just type "disk man" and it defaulted to the disk management control panel, now it's defaulting to a Bing search (in edge of course even though Firefox is default browser) for the phrase... Tried it on like 4 computers and only one was even offering the control panel as an option and it wasn't the first one. Same thing with "default apps"...

Really glad I made the jump to Linux when I did, everytime I have to do something out of the usual user use case in windows at work I find myself more and more frustrated and jaded with windows.

I'll say it a million times if I have to

Install Linux, take back your computer, get rid of the microshit problem

Are they begging for another antitrust?

Windows 11 is malware . I’m older than yoda, I used windows all my life. Switched to fucking Mac last year which is shit, but iits not tracking my every move, is arguably not loaded with bloat, and nagging me about my choice of browser.

Windows is malware.

If the screenshot in the article is to be believed, it literally has a typo, missing a quote for Don't, which is usually one of the most common ways to spot suspicious activity and malware, and now, as someone working for an MSP, I have to now tell those users who see this that confusingly, yes this was legitimate and it was a Microsoft ad. The font isn't exactly standard either, the buttons look like Arial which also just looks suspicious.

Bing sucks. Their customer support is absolutely terrible. They blocked one of my sites and I can never get a response, so I just don’t bother with it (and don’t advertise there)

Edge* is fucking shitty, to boot. It keeps serving my grandma fucking scam ads, how in the ever-loving motherfuck is that a thing in an official Microsoft browser?

Looks like Microsoft needs to be reminded about their anti trust case again. some things never change.

Darn, beat me to it today, can I post this tomorrow?

On a more relevant note:

We are aware of these reports and have paused this notification while we investigate and take appropriate action to address this unintended behavior

What is utter bullshit, Alex?

Can they also get google telling me to switch to chrome every time I open an email to become classed as malware

Pushed me to endeavour os

What is C:\windows\temp? Wasn't LOCALAPPDATA supposed for that?

This is getting tiring, not microsoft or Google or apple or any other, its too hard to be private these days, using nextdns, vpn and mull but I still dont feel safe browsing

Yeah, on /r/assholedesign I have seen posts about these popups

Malware characteristics Windows

• Backdoor/Automatic file download/execution ✓
• Logs keys ✓
• Injects into other processes ✗
• Solely designed to only make money ✓
• Prevents removal of itself/parts ✓
• Does not annoy the user ✗
• From an untrusted source ✓
• Closed source ✓
• Sells your data ✓
• Tries to gain control over the 'user' ✓
• Relies on unawareness to exist ✓
• Minimal ✗
• Compatible with many systems ✗
• Basic features do not cost like a new GPU ✗

What else are people expecting from Micro$oft ?

set the edge homepage to google. don't use the widgets. crap news sites mostly