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Windows 10 Informs Chrome and Firefox Users That Edge is "Safer"

posted by GreatOutdoors on Sunday November 27 2016, @02:55AM   
from the of-course-my-software-is-safer dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft has turned on a new set of Windows Tips that inform Chrome and Firefox users on Windows 10 that Edge is a "safer" browser. We reached out to Microsoft to find out how long this latest recommendation has been active. "This wave of Windows Tips for Windows 10 users began in early November," a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat.

If this sounds familiar, that's because Microsoft turned on similar Windows 10 tips back in July, warning Chrome/Firefox users about battery drain and then recommending Edge instead. Those notifications were on the battery icon in the operating system, while this new one is on the Edge icon:

[...] The battery drain "tip" was timed with Microsoft's battery-savings campaign for Edge, and this security one is no different. NSS Labs compared the security of the three major Windows browsers and unsurprisingly — Microsoft has a long history of asking NSS Labs to do a study in which its browser comes out on top, though it claims this one wasn't commissioned — Edge won in a particular metric. That's where the "It blocks 21% more socially engineered malware" part from the notification comes from.

See a previous related article Here [soylentnews.org]

Would you change your software based on a recommendation like this?

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• Re:Only if I were naïve and uninformed. Re:Only if I were naïve and uninformed. (Score: 5, Insightful) by boltronics on Sunday November 27 2016, @07:13AM

  by boltronics (580) on Sunday November 27 2016, @07:13AM (#433572) Homepage Journal

  I use Firefox for Android on my phone, and doing a web search just today with Duck Duck Go I didn't get the results I wanted so tried Google (by retrying the query with DDG's !g switch). I received a friendly message from Google that I should use Google's search app instead because it is apparently much easier than Google's competitor Firefox, according to the manufacturer of said app. Gee, thanks Google. So glad you're competitive with Microsoft in this.

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  It's GNU/Linux dammit!

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• Re:Only if I were naïve and uninformed. (Score: 2) by arslan on Monday November 28 2016, @01:25AM

  by arslan (3462) on Monday November 28 2016, @01:25AM (#433858)

  Product placement vs. Security claims. Quite different... don't you think?

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