Honestly Edge might be better at this point but it really doesn’t matter. Google won the browser war years ago and people have too much inertia to care
Microsoft, if they weren’t run by morons could capitalize HARD on Google’s fuckery.
Hey, we’ve got the chromium browser but we won’t be following suit with googles anti ad blocking bullshit!
This would convert a bunch of people, including me. And with me goes pretty much 30 people in my range (family / friends) since I setup their shit anyway.
But, no Microsoft is just licking Google’s asshole and applying lipstick on the chrome turd and wondering why no-one wants it.
Of course I find this attempt from Microsoft to make you stick on Edge (together with all the other ones) pretty ridicolous, But after having to use Win11 + Edge for a bunch of days instead of my usual OS and Browser I really don’t understand why people who doesn’t give a shit about their privacy and the welfare of the internet (because if you use Google Chrome this must be your case) just don’t use Edge. It’s basically chrome but with more cool features and a much better integration with the OS!
So I guess in this case maybe it was not an attempt to make user stick with Edge, but just the Edge developers being annoyed by the fact that all what they do is not apreciated 😂
You mean all they didn’t do? But the answer is in your question. Better integration with the OS. That’s the problem. IE6 did the same thing. Then MS started altering standards a bit once they gained majority of users. This resulted in broken standards and monopoly that took us decades to break. Remember that Microsoft is the creator of EEE…
It’s still the same engine, so in a way they are not competing. FF is the only alternative in town and that scares me. Even Opera gave up on their engine. And indeed Google is trying to do a similar thing, but they have less power to do so than what Microsoft did. Google can force certain things, but Microsoft is in far better position to push things their way. But like you said, competition is a good thing.
Why does anyone care? Just ignore the poll and download whichever browser you want to use. If it was actually stopping me from downloading the other browser, then that’s a problem.
This is the same as an advert popping up. Just bat it away and carry on as normal.
The issue is that adverts built into the OS, and into browsers shipped with it, are regarded incredibly poorly. Regardless of the ease of bypassing them and how little impact they have, they simply should not be there in the first place.
Asking why people care is not a complaint. The people that care are the ones complaining.
Stating that adverts dont know or care that i hate them is not a complaint. It’s a metaphor. I’m saying that you and eveyone else are not individuals with voices or opinions. You are just a big blob of money that isnt using edge. You mean nothing to them so your complaints are meaningless.
I didn’t realise 9/11 and ISIS were microsoft polls…
I also dont remember saying it would make it go away. It doesn’t affect anyone in any way. Altough it does trugger some people on here who then decided to compare microsoft begging people to use edge to a terrorist group and a terrorist attack on the wtc… wtf
To Firefox, sure. But if you’re on Windows and your preferred alternative is Chrome you really might as well stay with Edge and benefit from the integration into Microsoft’s ecosystem. Either way your data is being harvested.
I remember that nightmare vividly, my old company was using that piece of absolute garbage up until 2017 or so, until all the critical crap that had it as a hard requirement was replaced.
Indeed. I did web development at the time and I distinctly remember nightmares of doing things by the book and then having to spend 30% more time to make the whole thing work on IE. Sometimes you had to address IE6 and 7 separately. No amount of Microsoft PR these days can’t save them from hatred I have accumulated back then.
Because Microsoft is so damn pushy. Literally anytime they ask my feedback is that they need to just fuck off from my PC and do the bare minimum that I require them to do. I don’t need all the bullshit they throw on there to try and get more and more of my data.
Microsoft: Should we invest time and energy into allowing a basic feature in the W11 taskbar, like the ability to ungroup items? No, better divert resources into pushing our shitty browser and making polls!
I’m running w11 and I have no idea why everyone is having all this trouble. I have it set to behave like win 10 and barely notice a difference. But I also have the reg key from my win 10 laptop so I can imagine anyone pirating it without a key is gonna have a bad time.
Dont forget they fucked their own BASIC search feature by making it assume you want to BING websearch when you’re trying to quick locate a file on your computer
I’m pretty sure this was the final straw for me. Even if Valve didnt support a banger version of Linux that evens the playing field for gaming, win 10 and 11 were always going to make me make the jump to Linux
It’s all about who gets to read along with you as you browse the web, plan your trips, share poignant memories and photos…
Some people want that creepily unknown corporate employee to be a Microsoft employee. Some prefer a Google employee, plus whoever Google is selling that information, over and over, to.
Some weirdos even prefer a browser without trackers. /s
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