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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
When you try to install the Firefox pr Chrome web browser on a recent Windows 10 version 1809 Insider build, you may notice that the installation gets interrupted by the operating system.
The intermediary screen that interrupts the installation states that Edge is installed on the device and that it is safer and faster than the browser that the user was about to install on the device.
Options provided are to open Microsoft Edge or install the other browser anyway. There is also an option to disable the warning type in the future but that leads to the Apps listing of the Settings application and no option to do anything about that.
[...] Companies like Google or Microsoft have used their market position in the past to push their own products. Google pushes Chrome on all of its properties when users use different browsers to connect to them, and Microsoft too displayed notifications on the Windows 10 platform to users who used other browsers that Edge was more secure or power friendly.
The intercepting of installers on Windows is a new low, however. A user who initiates the installation of a browser does so on purpose. The prompt that Microsoft displays claims that Edge is safer and faster, and it puts the Open Microsoft Edge button on focus and not the "install anyway" button.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:25PM (1 child)
Seriously, why don't they just get it over with and lock the entire thing down only permitting genuine Microsoft(TM) applications? That is the way things are moving anyway. What kind of error will we get next trying to install Libre Office, or VLC?
While they are at it, they should take away all user settings, replace TCP/IP networking with a new propriatary Microsoft technology, hard code it to only permit accessing authorized Microsoft web sites and internet services, forbid any third party software development for Windows, DRM Office document files so only Microsoft Office and related Microsoft products can open them (as if thier shit specs wern't enough), and forbid use of any hardware that doesn't come out of Microsoft itself.
Then the rest of the world could finally go about switching to Linux or something else and Microsoft can close their doors for good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:15PM
Go on dreaming. There are enough business customers locked in ( and vendors that sell it retail on their boxes ) that even if they did that, they would not simply vanish.