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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: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday July 31 2015, @10:55PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday July 31 2015, @10:55PM (#216561) Journal

    Hmm… demagogue?

    1: a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power

    2: a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times

    Hard to call the hordes of SJWs on Twitter leaders. Ok, let's check etymology to see if we can hack this word.

    Greek dēmagōgos, from dēmos people (perhaps akin to Greek daiesthai to divide) + agōgos leading, from agein to lead.

    Ah, crap, it's straight from Greek. I was hoping there'd be a Latin link in there somewhere, and I seem to have misplaced my copy of the OED to double-check Merriam-Webster's version above. I'm out of my depth here.

    I'll think about it some more. Oh, and I left out SIW/SIJW (Social (Injustice|InJustice) Warrior) as one of the proposed alternatives so adding it here to be thorough. (I'm pretty sure SIW ⇒ SJW, ¬(SIW ⇒ opposito-SJW), but please correct if I need to move the ¬ over to the former from the latter.)

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