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Microsoft Edge now bashes Google Chrome when you download it:
Microsoft Edge is now displaying in-browser alerts that discourage users from downloading Google Chrome by bashing the popular browser.
As developers compete for control of browser market share, it is not uncommon for them to try and discourage users from downloading competing browsers.
Last February, Windows 10 started to show messages in the Start Menu that suggeted users to switch to Microsoft Edge when Firefox was installed or configured as the default browser.
[...] A few weeks later, Google began telling Microsoft Edge users to switch to Chrome to use browser extensions more securely.
[...] Fast forward almost a year later, and now Microsoft Edge is displaying in-browser notifications that bash Google Chrome when a user attempts to download it.
As first reported by WindowsLatest, when visiting the Chrome download page using Microsoft Edge, users will see an in-browser notification to convince them not to make the change
[...] For the most part, these in-browser notifications bash Google Chrome by insinuating Edge is a more secure browser, that Chrome is outdated and boring, that Chrome is slower and less reliable, and that you can save more money using Edge.
These notifications are stored in the %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Edge SxS\Application\98.0.1092.0\Locales\en-US.pak file [...]
[...] While users are rightfully annoyed by Microsoft's sniping at Google Chrome, it is important to remember that Google performs similar behavior, although not as direct as what we see in Microsoft Edge.
[...] This will likely eat into Google Chrome's market share, and we should expect to see further sniping like this continue between the companies.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @03:17AM (14 children)
If people just stopped reporting news about Microshit and their One Microshit way approach then maybe, just maybe, they would wither on the vine and eventually become bankrupt.
STOP cooperation with MS
STOP supporting MS Windows OS
STOP buying MS hardware
STOP using MS software and services
You can stop.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Friday December 03 2021, @03:32AM (10 children)
You seem to assume Microsoft is not the one paying (or incentivizing via leg breaking) for these news reports to appear. They have been a bit more subtle about it since the 1990s, but don't think they don't still do it.
When a fancy looking management brochure full of propaganda shows up on an executive's desk, you know they will believe and follow every word. When it said, uninstall Netscape, they uninstalled Netscape. When it says uninstall Firefox or Chrome, they will uninstall Firefox or Chrome.
"Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with added trust of Microsoft" - I cringe at the thought of what they might mean by "trust". Not that I trust Google Chrime at all.
...wait, someone is actually USING Microsoft Edge?
(Score: 5, Touché) by janrinok on Friday December 03 2021, @07:07AM (8 children)
Yes! How else do you download Firefox or Chrome on a new Windows system?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Friday December 03 2021, @07:40AM
Step 1: Install WSL.
Step 2: Install a suitable Linux browser via the Linux package manager.
Step 3: If you want a native Windows browser, use the Linux browser to download the desired browser for Windows.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Friday December 03 2021, @02:07PM (1 child)
ftp.exe
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday December 03 2021, @03:25PM
Perhaps, but for how long? Support for it was dropped from Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/04/13/what-to-expect-for-the-upcoming-deprecation-of-ftp-in-firefox/ [mozilla.org]
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/09/chrome-86-deps-rems [google.com]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform/site-impacting-changes [microsoft.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @06:17PM (4 children)
Found the computer illterate editor. Curl and or get.
(Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Friday December 03 2021, @07:11PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 04 2021, @12:35AM (1 child)
Ok wise guy, how do you download msys2 and/or cygwin? Do they even bundle ftp.exe any more? I mean sure you could just install a decent OS written using a socialist software development model....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 04 2021, @09:04AM
Cygwin? Get educated.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/tar-and-curl-come-to-windows/ [microsoft.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 04 2021, @05:45AM
I think you meant curl or wget.
(Score: 2) by jb on Sunday December 05 2021, @04:35AM
That sentence parses perfectly well. It is possible (and indeed quite easy) to add a negative number to zero.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by JustNiz on Friday December 03 2021, @04:52AM
Sure, individuals can stop, but Individuals aren't the ones that Microsoft are making their money from.
At least at every company I've ever worked at, the entire IT department worships hard at Microsoft's altar, apparently not least because Microsoft makes sure that IT people get a constant stream of bullshit certifications and other freebies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @08:27AM
The correct prefix is MACRO, not micro.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday December 04 2021, @04:30PM
That doesn't work. They got dinged by the FTC for exactly the same shit late in the Clinton administration and Bush let them off the hook. As long as we have fascists pretending to be Republicans, big business can do whatever evil they wish. If America's 12th worst president (as judged by historians) would have broken Microsoft up as the previous administration had wanted to, these nonsensical shenanigans wouldn't happen. Neither Microsoft nor Google should be allowed to have a browser. Have you tried reading Google News on an Android with FireFox?
Microsoft has always been pure evil. Anybody else old enough to remember "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run"?
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