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

Posted by msmash on 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.

5 of 261 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Non Issue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you could uninstall Edge, then it would be a non-issue, since you could then make sure that a given user would never encounter that problem. Since you can't get rid of Edge, however, the problem will inevitably be encountered. Therefore it is an issue.

  2. Re:Same shit new year by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if the Trumpian political environment has emboldened MS to return to its pushy monopolistic ways.

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  3. Re:Non Issue by freeze128 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A friend of mine has a visual impairment. He has often complained that Windows 10 updates have reset his accessibility options, like the mouse button binding he uses for the magnifier. Microsoft won't care about browser preferences being reset, but maybe a fine for disobeying the Americans with Disabilities Act will get them to get their act together.

  4. Re: Non Issue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You've never been to this site before have you? I mean the claim that people are not /were not up in arms over systemd is down right laughable. Either that or your a YUUUGE Hillary fan and are jumping on the alternative facts bandwagon.

    FTFY

  5. Re: Non Issue by jellomizer · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I am just happy the full monopoly of init.d is gone.

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