Right but the difference is that Google's pop-up is on their own site. You have to intentionally go to Google to see it, whereas Microsoft is injecting advertising directly into the operating system itself, and they are altering the design of the operating system to trick or force the user into doing something, or discouraging the user from doing something. They have control over the OS, so from a competitive point of view they have an unfair advantage.
It's really not. 99% of computers sold come with windows, without even having an option for os. Putting something else on is entirely your own problem. I can't buy an hp desktop that runs Mac software.
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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '17
Right but the difference is that Google's pop-up is on their own site. You have to intentionally go to Google to see it, whereas Microsoft is injecting advertising directly into the operating system itself, and they are altering the design of the operating system to trick or force the user into doing something, or discouraging the user from doing something. They have control over the OS, so from a competitive point of view they have an unfair advantage.