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posted by takyon on Friday July 31 2015, @11:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the lead-from-behind dept.

Upgrades of Windows 10 reset the default browser to Microsoft's new Edge browser, and this has caused Mozilla CEO Chris Beard to issue an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella:

[T]he update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have.

[...] We appreciate that it's still technically possible to preserve people's previous settings and defaults, but the design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more difficult. It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows. It's confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost.

Firefox's market share continues to drop by varying degrees according to analysis by Martin Brinkmann of ghacks.net.

takyon: Microsoft reports that 14 million users took the plunge and installed Windows 10 yesterday. Microsoft has stated it wants Windows 10 on 1 billion devices within the next 3 years.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @01:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @01:41PM (#216303)

    To be fair. I upgrade to win 10. I was bored and figured 'what the hell I will break my computer'.

    It took it about 3 times for it to finally 'stick' as the default browser. Even though it was the default BEFORE I upgraded....

    I dont use my browser for much more than a bit of youtube and some funny pics and the occasional rant. So what it is, does not matter much to me. I could use IE but I like the adblock features in firefox. Which gives you 95% of the speed up you are looking for anyway.