Google has suddenly hit back hard after Microsoft was seemingly caught capturing and diverting Google users within its Windows ecosystem. “New year, new low,” one Google exec posted on X, accusing the Windows-maker of “a long history of tricks to confuse users and limit choice.”
Windows Latest first spotted the situation, describing it as a “genius move to keep you from Google search.” It’s part of a larger pattern by Microsoft to get Google users to switch to Edge and Bing, taking advantage of their positions as the default browser and search engine in Windows.
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And it isn't just users who've found the tactic a little underhand. On Twitter, Google Chrome's security chief Parisa Tabriz called the move a "new low" for Microsoft, citing it as “another tactic in [Microsoft’s] long history of tricks to confuse users and limit choice.”
Google attacked Microsoft for “its long history of tricks to confuse users and limit choice,” less than than three weeks after it was accused of “reducing people’s choice and control over how their information is collected,
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