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Microsoft is Interrupting Chrome and Firefox Installations To Promote Its Edge Browser in the Newest Windows 10 Build (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you open Edge and search for "Chrome" or "Firefox" using Bing, Edge's default search engine, you'll be presented with a massive banner informing you that "Microsoft Edge is the faster, safer browser on Windows 10 and is already installed on your PC." Four boxes below then show you how Edge lets you browse longer, and faster, offers built-in protection and built-in assistance. If that doesn't stop you, then Microsoft has a new, much nastier trick up its sleeve -- when you go to install Firefox or Chrome it intercepts the action and pops up a window promoting Edge with the same line about how its browser is faster and safer. It then gives you a blue button to click to open Edge, or a grey one you can click to install the browser you actually want to use. Oh, and this window will keep appearing, unless you go into Settings and stop Windows 10 from offering you app "recommendations."
UPDATE (9/15/18): "After massive backlash by users against this move, Microsoft has finally decided to eliminate the warning message," reports Neowin.
Further reading: Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser.
UPDATE (9/15/18): "After massive backlash by users against this move, Microsoft has finally decided to eliminate the warning message," reports Neowin.
Further reading: Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser.
The cockblocking of competing products.
Chrome does the same thing when you open IE/Edge and navigate to google.com.
No, Google the search engine gives you an ad for their product when you search for a competitor. I have no problem with Bing doing that either.
The operating system itself giving you an ad for a competing product when you try to install something, however, is a different animal entirely.
The issue isn't What Microsoft did, but how they did it. Microsoft has the right to advertise their browser, however to intercept a on call to run a program and do a particular action because it is a competitors product is just bad form.
That would be like Linux putting an alert because you ran some non-gpl code in the OS. and you are getting a lecture on how Closed Source Software is so bad.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Nope. When you go to bing/google, the offered service is free. That's why Ads are OK.
Here, basically you pay for an OS that still gives you ads (compared to a free OS that doesn't ... really no question which one to install), but not only Ads, it also gets in the way when you try to install competing products. This is way nastier than having an ad in the corner of a web page because it means that Adware has ways to look at everything you are doing, vastly escaping the browser. This is a huge security issue.
So you could argue that it's just Microsoft pre-installing Adware on your system to pay for part of the OS (just like Lenovo/Toshiba/... have been always doing). Still, that's the main reason why I started re-advocating for everyone to install Linux -- Windows is just not safe for everyone to use.
Windows 10 is malware.That fact has been known for a few years.
The remedy is simple : Just use Linux.
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It's a steaming pile of spyware built on top of an arguably otherwise acceptable operating system.
Windows 10 is not first and foremost the spyware. We know this because if you are willing to volume license, you can get the OS without the spyware. Therefore, it's a halfway decent operating system which requires that you go to heroic lengths to avoid getting it with spyware. Still more than enough reason to avoid in general, IMO, but not quite the same thing.
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