{"id":246652,"date":"2023-08-31T03:39:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=304743"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:21:49","slug":"microsofts-latest-desperate-attempts-to-get-people-to-use-bing-are-unbelievable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsofts-latest-desperate-attempts-to-get-people-to-use-bing-are-unbelievable\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft’s latest desperate attempts to get people to use Bing are hard to believe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Microsoft seems to think it’s okay to put a popup window on your computer above my applications and games just because users are using Chrome instead of Microsoft Edge<\/a>, their own browser.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And don’t think it’s a regular notification. It doesn’t show up in the Windows 11 notification center<\/a>, nor is it connected to the part of Windows 11 that suggests new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This notification is, literally, a fake executable file that has somehow appeared in c:\\windows\\temp\\mubstemp and is digitally signed by Microsoft, as explained by Tom Warren in The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Microsoft is apologizing\u2026 and they’re saying they will try to fix it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we look on the internet, there are many users who thought it was malware; for three months, you can see on Reddit users trying to figure out<\/a> why they were seeing the popup window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is that this isn’t the first time they’ve done this. Their feud with Google Chrome goes back a long way, and even in Windows 10, the hostilities began with Google’s browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company has used various methods to get people to switch from Google and Chrome to Bing and Edge<\/strong>. Microsoft has been employing a variety of prompts for years, with popup windows appearing within Chrome, on the Windows taskbar, and in other places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft has even forced people into Edge after a Windows update<\/strong>, and regularly displays a full-screen message to switch to Bing and Edge after updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google. Microsoft\u2019s latest desperate attempts to get people to use Bing are a disgusting overreach https:\/\/t.co\/UTwck5WJSF<\/a><\/p>— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>