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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: 1) by anubi on Friday September 14 2018, @08:44AM
Personally, I would love to see copyright law clearly state that any unsupported software is legally considered abandonware, and has no further copyright status under the law.
If someone is continuing to support their 25 year old CAD system, as far as I am concerned, that's their bread and butter, and they are still milking that cow. Its still a productive cow. Why shouldn't they keep the fruit of their labor?
But if they don't support it anymore, its like the neighbor putting a washing machine out by the curb. People around where I live do this all the time. In a day or so, someone else drives by in a pickup truck, sees it, takes it. Now, what he does with it is his business, but as far as I am concerned, it was not theft. It was an abandoned washing machine.
But if the guy comes into the neighbor's property and takes it, THEN its theft.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]