- Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft’s design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser.
- The report highlights how Microsoft interrupts the installation process of Google Chrome on Windows devices, promoting the security and privacy benefits of Edge.
- Mozilla calls for regulatory action to restore browser choice and competition across major platforms.
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Well there’s your problem!
The worst thing Microsoft has done with Edge, was how they tried telling everyone it wasn’t Internet Explorer, while using very similar icons for the longest time. Edge functioned a lot like Internet Explorer in how unstable and shitty it was.
Still is.
Edge is just a modified Chrome, so it’s not all that bad now, but Microsoft needs to stop micromanaging what people do with computers. The consumer bought it. It should be their PC, not Microsoft’s.
Seriously, Microsoft needs to get out of their own way with the marketing and just make a good product instead of trying to force all these things on people. They’d get a lot less negative attention if they just focused on the browser. The times I’ve tried it, it wasn’t bad but I now refuse to use it out of spite for their forcing it on you.
This is also a problem with them overall. They’ve improved so many things in modern Windows under the hood (e.g. we’ve gone from installing drivers for every component to needing practically nothing installed manually due to it doing it for you, it rarely bluescreens anymore in my experience, winget is nice) but then they ruin it with stuff like going backwards on the default apps screen (in 10 it was easy to set for common apps like browser/email/media/etc, in 11 its per protocol/file). Making it difficult to switch browsers or using Edge anyways for some things and ignoring the default just pisses people off for no good reason.
Microsoft are still better than Apple in this regard. But they’re both far from acceptable.
Um, then go Linux then and shut up.
You clearly don’t understand how that works. We can’t shut up once we moved!
Ahem, I use arch BTW