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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @07:14AM
And sells the spy data to other companies.
How did they know you asked your wife for a blowjob?
Windows 10 recorded it as part of their telemetry to assist with perfecting speech patterns for their new real time verbal command system which was sent to a third company as part of their metatdata monotonisation program. If you had not been talking about your daughter's wedding for half an hour perhaps, other than your IP address the date the time the machine ID your Miscrosoft account name and your credit card number, they would not have known who you are and then would never have tried to sell your wife blow job lessons through a recent whorehouse which your wife mistook as coming from your which led to you losing your house in the divorce.