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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 DannyB on Friday September 14 2018, @08:21PM
You make good points. It's been a long time since I was a card carrying Mac fanboy. But I was one once, and a Mac (classic) developer.
Where I think Windows strength is in business:
1. small business. Inertia. Apathy. Go with the flow. PCs sold everywhere. So buy a PC and get the PC software.
2. large enterprise. If you have 1,000 or more PCs to maintain you probably run mostly Windows. Microsoft has built a great enterprise story for running very large fleets of PCs. If you know of a serious alternative I would be glad to be informed about it.
Again, I have no love for Microsoft and wish they would just disappear. I almost feel that way about Apple too, but not quite as strongly.
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