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Microsoft on Thursday began blocking rival browsers and search providers from using Windows 10's Cortana search box, the operating system's prime search real estate.
While Gavin didn't name names, Mozilla's Firefox modified Windows 10 so that when that browser was made the operating system's default, Firefox's selected search provider generated results from in-Cortana queries, with the ensuing pages appearing in Firefox, not Edge. Other browsers, such as Google's Chrome, did not go that far, but third-party extensions available in the Chrome Web Store did.
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If your hands are clean and your cause is just and your demands are
reasonable, at least it's a start.
(Score: 2) by SDRefugee on Saturday April 30 2016, @02:18PM
I spent from 1991 to 2010 supporting MS products as a sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with MS products, and moved all my home systems over to Linux. Since I *am* retired, I've become the neighborhood "geek" and get to help my neighbors with their computers/tablets/phones (or often ANYthing that uses electricity)... Since Windows 10 came on the scene, my hatred for things MS has only increased. The help I try really hard to provide my neighbors is getting them OFF of the MS "treadmill" and onto Linux. So far, I've been fairly successful, and in fact, several neighbors, who bought new systems over the holidays have come to me asking about Windows 10 on their systems. I show them chapter/verse what a privacy nightmare Windows 10 is, and If I can't get them to switch to Linux, I at least "castrate" the system, putting GWX Toolbox on it, among others, at least blunting the worst aspects of 10..
America should be proud of Edward Snowden, the hero, whether they know it or not..
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 01 2016, @02:50AM
> I spent from 1991 to 2010 supporting MS products as a sysadmin.
When this guy meets Vietnam vets, they rush to shake hands and pat him on the back.
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(Score: 2) by SDRefugee on Sunday May 01 2016, @03:12AM
ok... not sure where you're going with that.. I *am* a Vietnam vet, did 11 months over there 1970-71.. Kinda weird to shake my own hand.. :->
America should be proud of Edward Snowden, the hero, whether they know it or not..
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 01 2016, @02:38PM
Well, I must have acquired clairvoyance somehow. Neural nets are funny.
Anyway! All Soylentnews users should pat your back, both a 'Nam and 'dows vet, wow.
Do nightmares about the war give you some relief from windows induced ones?
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