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When trying to get GPT Bing, I let Microsoft set the defaults like they insisted.

It was such an awful experience.

>desktop ads

>Edge opens, edge ads

>Bing default browser, ads

>start menu ads

More on their products:

>Sharepoint, 3 different versions, terrible documentation. Impossible to develop for when you have forum posts describing different software with the same name.

>Power Automate, No I don't want drag and drop. Never ever. Further, we did do the drag and drop, only to run into issues and have to trick the software into showing some hidden ID that we could later copypaste. They even tease you with the actual code under the hood. I want to add a new line character, so easy in programming, (seems) impossible in power automate.

I have decided its urgent to make the full transition to Linux. Microsoft constantly seems to be fine with a terrible user experience. They are a giant. They remind me of Apple with their marketing/sales first mentality.

EDIT: (warning rage) Somehow edge opened up again. I lost my mind. I spent 5 minutes trying to uninstall without typing in some obscenely long version number. Nope. Impossible. Serious FU to M$.




I also recently installed Edge (on macOS) to give BinGPT a try and almost couldn't believe what I saw. Ads, coupons, rewards everywhere...

It truly felt like being transported to the darkest times of the late 90s/early 2000s, with multiple adware toolbars cluttering the IE user interface.


This was their opportunity to drag people away from Chrome and Google search, I remember the craze of people making jokes about the death of google and how they are trying edge/Bing.

Then they shot themselves in the foot with ads.


> It truly felt like being transported to the darkest times of the late 90s/early 2000

Exactly what I thought when I saw “Games” under the Edge menu - why can’t a browser just be a browser anymore?


Anyone remember "Signature Edition" PCs[1] that would ship without vendor crapware? I can't tell if this was Microsoft trying to make room for their own crapware or they just gave up on this idea and decided "if you can't beat them, join them".

[1] https://www.maketecheasier.com/microsoft-windows-10-signatur...


You can't uninstall Edge because it's deeply baked into the OS and even someone who knows what they're doing will probably bork their machine.




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