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Mozilla CEO: Windows 10 Strips User Choice For Browsers and Other Software
puddingebola writes: Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has sent an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella complaining about the default settings in Windows 10. Users who upgrade to 10 will have their default browser automatically changed to the new Edge browser. Beard said, "We appreciate that it’s still technically possible to preserve people’s previous settings and defaults, but the design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more difficult. It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows. It’s confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost. ... We strongly urge you to reconsider your business tactic here and again respect people’s right to choice and control of their online experience by making it easier, more obvious and intuitive for people to maintain the choices they have already made through the upgrade experience.
So basically they're doing the same thing with Windows 10 as they did originally with IE?
No, basically Mozilla is bitching that Windows 10 has default settings, and people might not change it to the ones they want.
When will Microsoft realize we own the computers, we are ultimately the ones who make decisions about the computers, and they simply can't dictate to us what software is on our computers and how we use it.
Nothing is stopping you from setting any browser you want as a default, or installing any legitimate software you want. Hopefully something is stopping illegitimate software from being installed without your permission though.
You might even find the DoJ knocking at your door if they ever grow a pair and stop doing whatever industry demands of them.
If the DOJ is going to go after criminals in industry, there are a lot better choices than this phantom hysterical one.
Microsoft's obligations in the US case ended in 2007, and they were willing to extend the terms of their settlement until 2012. They're not legally required to do anything anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When I upgraded to Windows 10 yesterday, there was a screen that came up that asked me if I wanted to reset the default apps. I said no for my browser and media player, and when it completed, Chrome and VLC were still the default applications. I think it's a little underhanded, but not as underhanded as the article suggests.
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I just installed Windows 10 last night. After the install was complete and you log in the first time, it asks you which of the installed browsers you would like to use. It still had Chrome, I selected it and it has since used it.
Does Mozilla want theirs to be at the top of the list? Do they expect that Windows 10 will carry over every setting from 7, 8, and 8.1?
Did the Mozilla CEO even try to install Windows 10 before firing off a message complaining?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
It's Apple's stupid protectionist policies that are the problem.
I think it's the very goal of Microsoft to blur the line between "desktop" and "mobile". Case and point: Windows Store (which will now be a much more prominent part of the OS) uses the same kind of app permission and sandboxing model as Android and iOS.
Yeah, I agree. I think this issue is a little overrated.
When I installed FF on Windows 10, it was slightly more difficult to make it my default browser, in that I had to click maybe 3 times instead of only 1 or 2 times as I would have on Windows 7.
The way it looks to me, MS is trying to make it harder for hijackers to silently take your defaults.
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funny, plenty of those 'fat americans' use that linux distro known as "Android" without problem