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.
MS screwing us with software. Apple screwing us with hardware upgrades. Linux out there taking all survivors
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
High time for another antitrust, huh
“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?
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.
Well windows is malware OS so nothing new
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.
Not saying it's okay in any way but Google does this with Chrome all the time on Amy Google page
Install Linux, problem solved
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.
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 ?.
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
This is the best summary I could come up with:

“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, in a statement to The Verge.

I wasn’t alone in thinking it was malware, with posts dating back three months showing Reddit users trying to figure out why they were seeing the pop-up.

Microsoft even had to backtrack on plans to force the Chrome default search to Bing for businesses installing its Office apps.

After all, Google runs similar notifications on its webpages to get people to use Chrome or it’s annoying YouTube premium spam.

That could be in the form of the price of a laptop that has a Windows OEM license baked in, or a product key if you built your own PC.

Windows is an important productivity tool for many people, and shouldn’t be treated like a cheap streaming box loaded with ads.

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Windows is a malware !
At the moment I use Windows 10, in the past Windows 7 also along with Kubuntu and others. I think that W10 is the last usable OS from M$, because of this I am not going to update it to W11, the following W12 and the online version for monthly subscription, are going to gradually take over the user's sovereignty over their own PC, with absolute control over it. I am going to continue W10, the gutted version that I use, until support ends in 2025 (probably 2026-27 due to the large number of users), then we will see what there is then as an alternative. Maybe I'll install some distro in dual boot in the meantime, but being online 99% of the time, where the OS used is irrelevant, it doesn't bother me that much at the moment. Anyway I don't use Google or Bing for obvious reasons and none of their services.
Does the same behavior appear with DuckDuckGo, or other alternatives?
Chaotic good?
I have been using Linux Mint in recent years, however the most recent version is quite buggy. It has regressed to 2014 levels of usability and I'm thinking about switching. The last LTS version worked great, best ever in fact. Not sure what explains the difference.
It's always "unintended behavior" isn't it?
But I already ditched google. For Firefox.

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