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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?