Microsoft annoys Chrome users with taskbar pop-up ads in Windows 10

[thedrelle]

Once upon a time, "you never got fired for buying IBM." Then one day, you did. Microsoft is so destroying its products and the quality of its users' experience that they, too, may soon jump the shark.

I used to love them. I started to hate them with Windows 8. I had high hopes for Windows 10.

Now, more and more every day I really hate them. If only there were an equivalent for Outlook, Word, and Excel to run on Linux Mint, I'd be gone. PLEASE, someone, take up the challenge.

have you checked to see if openoffice.org works? I"m pretty sure that's on Linux, but I dont know if it's on mint.

 

[thedrelle]

As a dedicated Microsoft user, I am equally appalled that every time I use Google maps, it throws out an ad to me to use Chrome. If I wanted Chrome, I'd use it. Stop wasting my time.

I'm not sure your complaint holds weight. the ad does not block anything, and can be ignored pretty easily, if you don't want to spend the .5 sec it takes to hit the "no thanks" button.

I think your more irritated about the fact that it's there at all, quietly judging you for not using their product.That I can understand completely.

 

[cliffordcooley]

I used to love them. I started to hate them with Windows 8. I had high hopes for Windows 10.

Now, more and more every day I really hate them. If only there were an equivalent for Outlook, Word, and Excel to run on Linux Mint, I'd be gone. PLEASE, someone, take up the challenge.

I feel the same way you do. However LibreOffice for my needs wouldn't be too hard to get used to. And I also have a few games keeping me on Windows. I have found cross-platform software for just about all that I use a PC for, that is other than gaming.

 

[paul s2]

Some are already speculating that Microsoft might be experimenting with the idea of offering a version of Windows for free, and a paid version that blocks advertising.
With this statement we are on teh full paid version now why do they need to start adds here.
this just makes the mistrust even greater.
you can get a windows 7 Pro COA on ebay for less then 20USD.
When I advise my friends I help them with windows and try to shut down the spyware windows ten has put on their machines and it seems to get harder every day. just yesterday friends PC was not installing updates correctly tehn we had to go in and disable teh bad updates that ware causing 2 hour restarts sad that we get forced into forced updates. but he good thing is he has windows ten pro and we now differed windows updated 180 days. he didnt tell me he had the pro version or I would have done this weeks ago.

 

[lazer]

I may have to convert to ... ughh... MAC .

Or Linux

Come on Microsoft! Get a clue already!

Linux is looking more and more appealing. The rate Microsoft is annoying people is only going to give Linux a little boost. Every day I see people contemplating the switch here.

I have Ubuntu on one of my computers. Simple and easy to use with NO ads....

 

[Ascaris]

[QUOTE="Rockstarrrr, post: 1586561]
Windows 10 is the worst Windows ever!

clearly someone who never used Windows ME...[/QUOTE]

I'd agree with Rockstarr about 10 being the worst, and I did use ME. It was preinstalled on a low-end laptop I bought in ~2001. I liked it... better UI than Windows 98 SE, and it booted faster too. It was not unusually unstable for Windows of that era. The only issue I had was that the new system restore feature never worked very well, but coming from 98 SE, I was already accustomed to using my backup images when something went wrong, so it wasn't any worse, other than the annoyance of a feature that doesn't work as advertised. It was, to me, the best of the 9x Windows series.

Once I saw what XP had to offer, though, ME was no more on that laptop. It had come with an XP upgrade CD/COA in the box, but people were still having trouble finding drivers and such to work with XP then, so I waited a bit before trying it.