Windows 11 now has pop ups straight-up telling users to get rid of Google

Thanks, that’s a good list.

Only problem I’ve noticed with Win 11 is my computer had something like your point 2 going on a few months back. It’d power up, I’d see BIOS on the monitor, and then nothing–no Windows interface, no beeps or errors, nothing at all. I made Win 11 boot media on another machine, booted to that, and rolled back last system update and everything started working again. That was distressing and I don’t see how a “normal” computer user would get themselves out of the situation without professional help.

I’ve been using Windows at home for 30 years and at the office for most of that time, and I also play games sometimes, so I’m effectively captured by the Windows ecosystem and I’m not looking at alternatives. All that said:

  • I became accustomed to Windows crashing regularly and requiring frequent reboots. I didn’t lose work to a hard crash that often but when I did it made me furious. Now I leave machines online for weeks and they work great. I can’t remember the last time I saw a BSOD.

  • Windows boots fast now. It used to take forever.

  • Windows used to have many trash solutions for basic operating system competencies such as virus protection and keeping the OS patched. Now, it has fewer of those problems too.

  • Microsoft is making some bad changes to Windows as in parent story, but some of the other stuff they’re doing (like Windows Subsystem for Linux) is very cool.

I’m not in general an Micro$oft fan, but for Windows I’ll happily install any update they send me (after un-checking all their services I don’t want, disallowing any privacy-invading settings, and ignoring suggestions about which browser or search engine to use).

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I had the hardest time getting my iphone to accept Google as my default. Literally took me days to get Google on my phone as my default

Initially as I downloaded Google, I keptt getting messages from MS stopping me from downloading, saying why Bing was so more of an advantage, Bing was the preferred browser and the iPhone works better. The iPhone was designed to partner with Bing! Optimal service was as easy as clicking away! That I should do it now and free myself from the evils of Google! Seriously that was basically the messaging I was getting.

And of course how google browser may be corrupt and was becoming obsolete.

As I would delete one message and restart downloading Google another MS message would interrupt the process.This was so irritating.

Installing Google was a game of where the hell is the Google app download NOW? Never stayed in one place. Again kept getting MS messages stopping the process and telling me how great Bing was and it was all set up. I just needed to agree.

Installing seemed easy enough at first until you realized it was not installing just disappearing. Had to stop notifications from Bing, MS, outlook, and others to install

The Google app, icon, and what it should normally look like and work lasted on my phone for about an hour. Today my Google default can be found on the Bing icon and when I pull it up it comes up as Yahoo , icon and all. But it is Google

I can have the Google app on my phone. I actually have it twice. It’s normal. Looks and works correctly.

Just having Google as my default that looks and works as one would expect just is not in the cards for me. But I do have it

Funny thing you can delete/stop Bing at anytime. But as soon as an update comes in so does Bing. Reactivates and seems to slowly pulls certain apps in for Bing usage only

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Just putting this here …

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I mean, 25 years…

This seems written by a badly trained AI.
It’s next to incomprehensible and quite incoherent.
IMHO, YMMV, maybe my brains are old and scrambled.

It sounds very much like “My Playstation Gameboy by Microsoft broke”.

If you are human, could you rephrase it in a more accessible way?

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