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Even non-techies know how and want to install a different browser, how many decades more will they try this pressure fueling of their shitty browser?
Like in the old days, you open windows, and an internet explorer pop‑up appears.
Good thing uninstall is a function right?
Edge cannot be uninstalled. It's utterly ridiculous that I cannot remove superfluous programs that I do not use from my own computer. (Before anyone tells me to just install Linux, I already use Debian but I have to use Windows for my classes)
It looks like you're trying to install a programme, let me help you . . . [link to microsoft app store].
Alongside this new behavior, Microsoft is testing a new UI design for Edge that more closely resembles Copilot. Edge and Copilot are becoming one of the same, with the latest Copilot update dropping its native Windows app in favor of an Edge powered web wrapped experience.
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Every shitty new idea in Redmond will just generate more Linux users.
Edge will connect to the online Windows remote OS server so you can run your applications in it and access your data from the MS data servers. How convenient.
As a computer user with ~30 years' experience with Windows: why? Why does the browser need to open? Since Windows 98, the OS and the browser have shared common elements. Those get preloaded already whether you like it or not. This is how IE got its performance gains and this is how Edge gets them as well. Firefox once had an extension that did a similar thing, it added a system tray icon that would preload parts of the browser. The effects were not that great, but some people kept it around. I suspect Chrome has similar things in Android/ChromeOS.
So generally I say this is fine, especially since you can opt out and it probably won't touch business/enterprise, government users, and maybe even Windows 11 Pro users who are spared a lot of the bullshit.
As a Mac guy, I don't think macOS is loading any part of Safari without permission. Safari isn't part of Finder (the file manager), it's not part of the OS aside from being included with it. I run Firefox full time on both my Macs.
And of course Linux is less likely to do this. They typically bundle Firefox (some bundle Chrome or something else) and Firefox isn't really meant to do that out the gate, so I doubt it's happening at all on Linux.
But even if I had 11 Home to game on, I'd just opt out, but also accept that it's probably still loading parts of Edge that other parts of the OS use (like the help system, is that still a thing? Haven't seen it since 98 or 2000 or maybe XP).
But also, my Macs and iPhone convert the Windows company to, let me just type it so I can show you, Microslop . Yeah, I set that up. It was funny for a while. It's still funny. Maybe if it stops being funny, I'll disable it.
It needs to happen because the MS Edge product manager has to meet some sort of arbitrary user level to get a bonus
It never prompted me. Zen's my default and I didn't even open Edge once on my laptop.
On my other computer I'm considering Mint or Ubuntu tho, but want to test first before migrating.
New theory: Microslop makes Windows shitty on purpose so that eventually all people leave and they can stop "developing" Windows and therefore save a lot of money, also by then firing all the devs (if they haven't been already, cos of AI)
Who is windows for anymore now that you can run games on Linux?
business users
I can’t take an OS with ads seriously. It’s a fucking joke. And any business that uses it is a joke, too.
Just a vector for malware.
Unfortunately corporations are addicted to the micromanaging control that Active Directory gives to them. They don't give a single flying fuck about the actual experience of using the OS, that's a problem for the plebians, they care that AD let's them do things like lock everyone's background to a corporate approved image or force everyone to use Edge as their browser while disabling the password saving feature.
Basically the OS is irrelevant, it's all about Active Directory.
Which, funny enough, Microsoft is thinking about sunsetting, because they can't stop losing. Although they have very similar features with Intune.
Unfortunately corporations are addicted to the micromanaging control that Active Directory gives to them.
Try being a sysadmin in a decent sized company (500+ employees) and you'll understand why.
I've been in one of those, we moved to samba first and to ubuntu later, in the end of the day we only really needed updates and centralized login storage. There were like 10 windows machines for accounting.
I still don't understand this. I've never, ever, seen an ad on Microsoft. Is it an EU thing? Finland thing? Why is it?
I have 3 PCs with windows, my kids have windows, every work laptop I've ever had has had windows.
Never an ad.
