Vivaldi CEO: Stop Your Anti-Competitive Practices With Edge, Microsoft! (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:20AM from the steering-clear dept.

Reader Mark Wilson writes: Microsoft is no stranger to pissing people off, particularly when it comes to Windows 10. There have been endless cries about forced updates, complaints about ads, moaning about privacy, and now the CEO of Vivaldi has lashed out at the company for its anti-competitive practices with Microsoft Edge. Jon von Tetzchner says that Microsoft has forgotten about the "actual real-life people that use technology in their daily lives." He takes particular umbrage at Windows 10's continued insistence of resetting the default browser to Edge. Indicating that his patience has now run out, von Tetzchner points to a 72-year-old friend who was confused by the change and unable to reverse things. He says that Microsoft is failing to respect the decisions made by users, and this is something that needs to stop.

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Re:Users Are Not Customers by stooo · 2017-01-24 03:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Yes. Free as in Cancer

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Re:Users Are Not Customers by fredrated · 2017-01-24 04:01 · Score: 3, Funny

You are too funny, I wish I had mod points!
Re:Vivaldi: Stop Your Anti-Competitive Practices by cdrudge · 2017-01-24 05:46 · Score: 1, Funny

you really think they care about about browser that has less market-share than even Firefox?
Are you talking about IE/Edge or Vivaldi.
Re: Non Issue by the_Bionic_lemming · 2017-01-24 06:24 · Score: 3, Funny

We can tell Microsoft to go fork themselves.
Just avoid win 10!

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Re:Non Issue by JohnnyBGod · 2017-01-24 07:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Clearly Windows isn't ready for the desktop.