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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 1) by harmless on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:01PM

    by harmless (1048) on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:01PM (#433653) Homepage

    Even if I weren't computer savvy, if a browser made by the company that made my OS said it was better, I'd drop it to the bottom of the list of browsers I'd prefer to use.

    If you have such a deep mistrust in said company, why do you use their OS in the first place?

  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:22PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:22PM (#433661)

    Games. I'm Linux savvy but Linux won't play my games.

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  • (Score: 2) by SDRefugee on Sunday November 27 2016, @06:47PM

    by SDRefugee (4477) on Sunday November 27 2016, @06:47PM (#433712)

    Poor guy may *have* to... I spent close to 20 years using/supporting Windows. I didn't have a good opinion of MS even then, but since they went off the deep end with Windows 10 and its "All your data is ours now" attitude, I actively despise them, and since I retired in 2010, my computers are MS-less...

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