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The first concern for many is that it was actually malware.
Alas, it is not.
As Microsoft has confirmed in a statement toThe Verge,this behavior is deliberate and is working as intended.
We can dismiss it, after all!
Obviously Microsoft wants us to use Bing, and especially wants us to useCopilot.
That much is understandable, but this bang out of behavior reeks of the old Microsoft.
Frankly, it’s an abuse of its position as the maker of Windows.
The only good part of all this is that it’s only supposed to appear once.
Or until Microsoft decides it didn’t get enough clicks from it and tries again.
I use Bing every day as my personal search engine, and I use Copilot.
But I made that choice of my own free will.
In no rational world is stuffing a sketchy looking ad pop-up atopanother company’s applicationgiving users “choice.”
It’s invasive, for one, and Microsoft should absolutely not be touching Google Chrome at all.
I’m more tired of the internet tool/search engine wars than I am of the seemingly never-ending console wars.
At least in the case of the latter, it’s mostly the customers who stoke the flames.
But as with Edge, this is not the way to get people to switch.
What I don’t see is Microsoft trumpetingwhypeople should switch.
Show the people why your stuff is better than Google’s or leave them the hell alone.
