This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

    • @CrayonRosary
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      381 year ago

      Why do you think you need to download Chrome? Write a 500 word essay explaining how it’s better than Edge.

      (For real, though, it’s not. Use Firefox.)

        • Dave.
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          121 year ago

          Your answer was 501 words, we have uninstalled all browsers except Edge and made Edge your default browser! Enjoy using Edge!

          • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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            91 year ago

            Your answer was exactly 500 words, so we have added the notation “smartass” to your permanent file and also made Edge your default browser. Enjoy using Edge!

            • Dave.
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              71 year ago

              “Ok where’s my Linux Mint USB stick, it’s time to make that live distro permanent.”

      • @ScaNtuRd
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        11 year ago

        Chrome? Why would you download that Google crap?

        • @CrayonRosary
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          71 year ago

          Did you not read my whole message?

    • ditty
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      111 year ago

      So there’s also this neat feature in Microsoft Office where if you insert a hyperlink to a Google Doc/Sheets/Slides/Forms, Microsoft appends URIs to the end that prevents the link from opening in browsers other than Edge/IE. It can be corrected with a registry edit, but it’s been an issue for years and years at this point. Super annoying!

      • Natanael
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        1 year ago

        Or another fun thing I recently saw at work, Microsoft changing Office programs to always open links in Edge by default so you have to edit a setting to make it open the default browser again - which caused a significant productivity loss when people suddenly had various intranet pages opened in a browser they were not logged into, and they all had to contact support to get the original sane behavior back.

        Microsoft is being run by marketing teams with hubris these days, there’s absolutely no way they’re testing these things with real humans before release.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Oh you want to change the default app for a file extension? Here change it for all the extensions one by one by hand!

      What do you mean you didn’t have to do this before? There’s no before!