Microsoft is displaying unskippable full-screen Microsoft 365 trial ads to some users

Wonder if it's only happening to those logging in with Microsoft accounts. If so, yet another good reason to use local accounts.

An "accident"? Nope, minimal testing (click each of the buttons to make sure they do what their labels indicate) would have found it.  It's just yet more putrid Microsoft behaviour.

17 hours ago, Karlston said:

putrid Microsoft behaviour

Talking about putrid, maybe this isn't right to criticize him for this but I just can't get around the fact that Gates just doesn't give a s**t about Windows.

You can really see the difference between him and Steve Jobs.

When Jobs came back after being ousted he took Apple in the choke hold that gave it the clout and standing it enjoys in the digital world.

Stagnation only came after his demise.

We can clearly see what happens when a company has no driving force behind it. Microsoft is just a big mess of a company which would have no future if it hadn't "Windows"

and "Office".

I would die a happy death to see in my lifetime an OS that would kick Microsoft in the balls and bring them to the wall in front of the firing squad

I think it's just symptomatic of companies getting too big and too successful. They seem to think their size gives them some sort of right to do what they want and be able to get away with it.

You see it often not just with Microsoft, but also Google and as you mentioned, Apple as well.

All we can do as users, is understand that they will keep pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable to us and we must continue to give feedback/pushback when we think they've gone too far. Only customers can keep them within acceptable boundaries.

Oh, and perhaps have leaders with charisma. Gates, Jobs, Ballmer had that. Attending an event with Jobs on stage was almost a religious experience. In comparison, Cook and Nadella are just bland and boring.

gHacks have an article that mentions a possible way to counter it (and other intrusive Microsoft spam advertising) by clearing a Windows setting...

@lurch234, you are half-right. Steve Jobs did exactly what you said he did, though I think it was more because of his inflated ego than from really caring about MacOS.

But Bill Gates is no longer involved with Microsoft, and he hasn't been involved in years.

Satya Nadella is Microsoft's CEO now, and around the time Nadella took over was when the problems with Windows started.

Has anyone tried what is in that ghacks articles? Since I am came across this, i remembered that this popup has been happening on both my WIN10 desktop and my WIN11 laptop.

@The Boca Deb Can't say you are wrong there. But this:

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I think it was more because of his inflated ego than from really caring about MacOS.

Could be up for further discussion. Even if this proposition is true, MacOS is still part of his image whatever he might have felt about it in the end.

And knowing how driven a man he was it would have been interesting to see what he would have done in nadellas' place. Even if he was retired.

Something I doubt he would have done.