Karlston Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Microsoft escalates to to Edge taskbar ads Edge has about 7.5% market share and this has largely changed over the last year. Microsoft has become increasingly desperate about promoting their native browser, including recently having unskippable splash screens when you update your PC. Now in their latest move, Microsoft is adding prompts to your taskbar, encouraging Windows 10 users to try the browser. The ads show up when you have the browser pinned, which should happen by default if you are upgrading from Internet Explorer. It is presumably aimed at inexperienced users who do not know how to pin an alternative 3rd party browser to the taskbar. The latest development follows similar notifications in Outlook website, Start Menu, and Windows Search and interestingly if it was successful in stealing market share from Chrome would open Microsoft up to an antitrust complaint from Google for abusing their desktop monopoly to push their browser. via WindowsLatest Microsoft escalates to to Edge taskbar ads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 3 hours ago, Karlston said: The latest development follows similar notifications in Outlook website, Start Menu, and Windows Search and interestingly if it was successful in stealing market share from Chrome would open Microsoft up to an antitrust complaint from Google for abusing their desktop monopoly to push their browser. When will this take place 22 years from now? the last historic antitrust case that took place was 1998 against Microsoft and before that it was AT&T in 1974. Google not even responded to there case yet they have tell DEC Microsoft is still a monopoly in the USA they have more OS users than IOS and Android .Google is in 3rd place Because Android has more users world wide dont matter in USA antitrust . Even if Microsoft had the most used browser and people still used Google , Facebook and Amazon Ads and services more i doubt they would go after Microsoft . Because Microsoft had the most used browser for years and years after 1998. In 1998 Google was new that when they officially was founded as a company. they didn't take the search market tell 2008 after the Government blocked Google and Yahoo Advertising Agreement .so in a sense they created the monster and let it get out of control . See Google and Yahoo was going to merge and control like 90% of Advertising so once they blocked it that messed Yahoo up and caused Google to gain control of most of the Advertising .Once smart phones came out google had 2 platforms to dominate in Advertising. But Google and Apple together have more users than Microsoft in the USA and that means they dominate the most used platform in the USA and that why there being sued and not Microsoft. together they control like over 60% of the OS marketshare in the USA Microsoft only controls 32%. they look at companies like Apple as being partners in crime with Google because Apple gets paid billions a year to let Google be default in there OSes Browser. .Microsoft dont do this they use there own ad company as default and its very small. IOS alone has almost as much users as Windows in the USA you add MacOS to that that means Apple has the most users and with Google that puts them way above poor little old Microsoft that was already slapped down by Antitrust . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Lol a simple message appears in the taskbar and everybody loses their minds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 I dont lose my mind because My OS i use everyday dont bake in browsers it comes with a open source one i can uninstall and dont even have the one that came in my OS for years. And since most people in my country use smartphones and windows only makes up 32% of the OS market that means at lest 68% of internet users here dont really give a what Microsoft does with there browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BimBamSmash Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 I'd be more inclined to click on that if the text read something like "Shut Up and Use Our Browser Already!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UberGeek Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Quote The ads show up when you have the browser pinned . . . Those who use Microsoft Edge, can just un-pin it . . . problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 6 hours ago, UberGeek said: Those who use Microsoft Edge, can just un-pin it . . . problem solved. You dont even have to do that this is nothing new Microsoft has done this with EDGE in 2016 before with Bing Rewards ads but M$ only paid rewards to people in the USA that used Bing so i dont think it happen to everyone. Typical Microsoft Behavior Lather, rinse, repeat there like a bottle of shampoo. From Back in 2016 i read the blog post comments here only one person had enough sense to just turn them off . Others swore it was malware and you should switch to Linux . https://twitter.com/BradChacos/status/794290588053098499 Here it is 2020 (Years Latter) and it's happens again most people who use Windows 10 very long know you can turn it off Native popups have been baked in windows 10 taskbar for years now, But sites like Windows Latest post about every time Microsoft fart , Some stuff that not even News Worthy like this . You can just click on it and it will go away are you can turn off tips and suggestions , As many times as M$ pulled stuff like this why would anyone have tips and suggestions on if they think there tips and suggestions look like ads? One unnamed source claims its a bug . --- If your device is affected by this unexpected behavior, you can easily get rid of such notifications. Just click on the pinned Edge icon, and notification will disappear. Also, you can turn off tips and suggestions option in Settings > System > Notifications & Actions. According to unnamed sources close to Microsoft, the company is now looking into this unexpected behavior, and they might pause the campaign soon. Users are not expected to see such ads when they are already using the browser. It looks like something in the OS is preventing it from detecting the running browser. Source : https://winaero.com/windows-10-version-20h2-now-displays-edge-promotional-pop-ups/ Windows 10 has always been a annoying POS OS , Most people who run it when they set it up they remove the UWP apps they dont want and get rid of ads and things in settings and Run stuff like O&O Windows 10 shut up and other programs to make it act half way like a normal legacy Windows OS . In most wealthy countries if you look at the market share at statcounter you will see that most people dont even use Windows very much and Apple OSes and Google OSes combined has way higher market than Microsoft OSes they only have 2 now that even supported and there just desktop. People who read the Windows PC centric news are stuck on stupid if they believe the hype about people using PCs to work at home and need to get with reality of living in a post COVID-19 world . Why would many people be using desktops when the whole world is suffering from high unemployment and widening social inequality right now ? When and if it gets any better no one really knows but things are going be bad from years to come its not going to get better overnight . Some Multi Billion Tech outfits stock is crashing with bad 3rd quarter reports they all blame it on COVID-19 it want shock me if it dont catch up with most of Tech before things get any better. They always say things have to get worse before they get better. You take Intel for instance they had like a 1% increase in selling PC chips but there stock crashed because of lack of demand in there Server Chip Market this is the Enterprise market. Same with SAP there Cloud market is doing OK but there Stock crashed due lack of sales of software. The few people who still have jobs that require a computer may be using PCs and other than that its mostly just hold outs that play games and stuff .And with Game Streaming were you can subscribe to play games on any OS even that fizzling out because you really dont need Windows to play games any more you can just use a smart phone or Linux . Only people who suffer from slow internet speeds would want offline games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UberGeek Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 8 hours ago, Sylence said: Lol a simple message appears in the taskbar and everybody loses their minds Yes, you are right. Just installed the latest Microsoft Edge Chromium on Windows 10 and that's just a message (at worst) . . . definitely not an ad. Like the fact that this browser ships with extensive Group Policies . . . I'm gonna keep this as my secondary browser (who knows it might . . . one day become my primary browser, too.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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