Microsoft Is Back with Annoying Self-Promotional Popups

With Microsoft ending the Windows ten complimentary upgrade offer, many of us believed that this was actually a practiced step, perhaps ridding us of all the nagging cocky-promotional pop ups that the company put us through. Clearly, nosotros were wrong. The Redmond software giant appears to have learned null from the negative user feedback that these constant pop ups provoked earlier in the year. Now, with over 40 one thousand thousand users leaving the company's browsers in just last month, the company is back to its old tactics.

Microsoft is luring people to its Border browser with freebies

Back in Baronial, Windows 10 users saw pop up messages in the taskbar advertising Microsoft's Border browser. This happened when they were using a rival browser similar Google's Chrome or Mozilla's Firefox. The visitor would advise that Border is faster and drains the battery slower than the other two. This actually initiated a sort of boxing with Google that started actively publishing its own ads and blog posts promoting the changes that information technology'south introducing to "Chrome on Windows" to brand information technology faster.

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— Rudy Huyn (@RudyHuyn) July 18, 2022

Microsoft is back with these annoying campaigns, now reminding users to sign upward for Microsoft Rewards (aka Bing Rewards) by using Microsoft Edge. The company continues its declining journeying to become more users to its browser past using the same tricks that have proven to antagonize users in the past.

This fourth dimension, however, it doesn't make any attacks against the other browsers, but merely lures the users in by enticing them with freebies. "Wanna earn while you scan? Get costless movies and games with Microsoft Edge. Come across how," reads the ads that pop out from the Microsoft Border icon in the taskbar.

The report starting time came fromPCWorld,reporting that all the ad settings were turned off. Apparently, the Anniversary Update installation had reset them to default. While the company is trying to promote the new features, the attempts information technology makes frequently cross the line to be intrusive and highly abrasive to users.

To put these ambitious promotions in some perspective, the software maker has lost over 300 million Edge and Internet Explorer users since January. That's a huge number of users who have chosen Chrome, Firefox and other rival browsers over Microsoft's offering.