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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 tangomargarine on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:42PM (1 child)
I dunno, after that whole thing where they basically lied to users in an effort to trick them into upgrading to Windows 10 my expectations where Microsoft are concerned are basically zero.
One would hope this is another decision that none of the developers actually agreed with, but management ignored their protestations. If not I have two demographics to be angry at.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @08:02PM
Apparently everything old is new again [wikipedia.org].
This is not a new, gentler Microsoft. It's the same old rabid weasel, still pulling the same old dirty tricks.