Microsoft really wants someone to remind it of these days:
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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I like that part of firefox's summary was that it's free. Uh, yeah, they all are. Thanks Mozilla!
Well, its not proprietary
Opera originally wasn't free.
Also, while it is chromium based, Vivaldi is excellent and is essentially a bunch of old Opera team members.
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I don't remember that. Where is it from?
Microsoft never liked competing browsers (not even in the pre-IE6 era when all they had was crap), so it's hard to believe it came from them.
EU fined the sh1t out of them, and somebody in the regulatory body at the time realized that was not enough. So they were ordered to present the user with a choice of a browser during the OS install.
What I really want to know is why and how it went away.
sh1t
You can say "shit" here, nobody is going to be a cunt about it.
No, but apparently people are going to be a cunt about it if one chooses not to say it.
Because it's looks stupid to use the word whilst censoring it, say it or don't say it. No point in trying to pretend you're not saying it.
I'd say I got a good habit. Too much of the internet randomly filters "obscenity". Whenever that happens it seems the devs are too fvkin damb to properly implement it.
Yeah god damn the censor shit, even on fucking picture, they censor the swear words to fucking hell by scribing over it
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INAL but my understanding was a lot of the fines and penalties hung on IE being part of the OS. I think it was the update functionality but don't quote me.
So with some legal technicalities, later versions of windows made it "not" part of the OS just a bundled application. A legal distinction without meaning but it meant they didn't need to do these things anymore.
The great joke is they are making the same mistakes again with edge, unfortunately the American justice system is a shambles these days so it's probably down to the EU to take the moral high ground.
Microsoft appear to be exposed to monopolistic penalties in several markets currently: browsers, AI / search, teams and office come to mind (although competitors are lacking, here)
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Microsoft:
The clickbait in this article is so bad, I thought it was a security vulnerability or something, but it's just something else related to Mozilla again.
I'm still genuinely curious if Mozilla is going to actually accept a renewal for the search deal with Google, or if they're actually going to start practicing with a praise and try implementing that search engine selection screen.
practicing with a praise
Not sure what you mean but maybe you were going for "practicing what they preach"?
Microsoft really trying to get away with what it did in the browser wars again, but it's probably gonna turn out on for them this time
So Microsoft just does the same shit they've done a hundred times before and have been penalized for a hundred times before.
Give them a few billion dollars fine.
Jail those managers that made this decision
THAT will make sure they will start behaving. If not, it's all just "please don't" and Microsoft being "suuuuurely we would never ever!"
Fuck Microsoft
have been penalized for a hundred times before
That's where you're wrong. The last time they shoveled their browser at us in clearly anti-competitive ways they were found guilty and then ... nothing. Essential software or some such, and nothing.
So no, they haven't been penalized; not on their Sherman offence, and here they go repeating it.
Hammer them.
Whenever I'm forced to use Edge for work it reminds me of old IE that your grandma installed the Ask toolbar in. Functions about the same too.
Is there any material difference between Edge and Chrome? I'm forced to use either of them for work and as far as I can tell they perform the same
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Again, install Linux already and be done with this shit.
That's always so easy to say, isn't it?
Far easier to do too. I did one of each last month and there's no question that the Windows setup experience is terrible in comparison.
The software and hardware I'm using won't work on Linux.
Linux community arrogance is to deny the device driver issues and think Apple is fine, when the reason Apple thrives is because they don't have open hardware like Linux, BSD, Windows...
Hardware companies are rarely held account for their absent support of Linux - some campaigns have come and gone, but in the end Linux users tend to arrogantly say it's trivial to switch and embrace dishonesty. I guess they figure Microsoft is dishonest, so they normalize it.
And that's the part that everyone ignores. They'll say open a VM or use wine or there's an open source alternative. But if I'm going to run native Linux just to open a windows VM to run the primary software I use, what's the point? I'm not bashing on either side. I use Windows when I need and, and go back to Linux when I'm finished, but that's because that's the solution that works for me.
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When Linux gets around to supporting all the games I like I will
It will never support 100% of games. Mainly due to extremly agresive anti cheats that are the same as root kits.
~~Alright, continue to suffer on Windows. Or fix it yourself.~~
Edit: I should have taken a different approach. It is difficult for older games or games specifically made for the Windows System. However there are many efforts made by good people. Valve's Proton is doing good things and Lutris is also making it easier. I am not expecting that all the games will run however there a few options that others made such as filing issues with the manufacturers or supporting projects that try to port it / fix it in some other way.
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Linux users are what everyone says vegans are.
But they speak from a high a position of superiority and rightness.
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Legit malware shown in this article. Imagine an operating system/browser injecting what are essentially ads into your webpage. Whether or not chrome or edge are any good these are scummy tactics by microsoft
Yeah MS has never done anything like that before...
Looks at MS Word in early nineties...
Look at what they did with Internet Explorer. Same shit.
Can the EU just Thanos snap Microsoft out of existence with a quadrillion euro fine?
That would be a sure fire way to get Microsoft to pull completely out of Europe leaving thousands of companies without support and a heafty unpaid fine setting on the table.
It would actually be beneficial for Microsoft to abandon the server farms and offices leaving workers with an email stating the situation and their new job status.
You think they make no profits in Europe? Why would they be here if they didn't?
I think it's fair to assume their profits are less than 1 quadrillion euros
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What is this clickbait bullshit? Here I was expecting more arguments I could use to move people away from Chrome, but the warning is just typical Microsoft trying to promote their own garbage browser.
This is a super clickbait title.
Yes, what Microsoft does is pretty shitty but the article sounds like there's some massive zero day hack or something to watch out for when it's just standard business practice.
Agreed. I would've changed it except I had in the back of my mind that the post title needed to match the article title, but now I don't see that in the rules. Oh well. But yeah the article is not really about Chrome at all.
You know what else is different about Lemmy? Post titles are editable!
Sorry, team nobody on this one. You both suck and need to stop what you're doing.
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I think this will ultimately backfire on them I gave the bing app a chance on my phone and I got so tired of the try edge interruptions I unninstalled everything Microsoft.
The search was actually decent but the constant nagging was very annoying.
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I updated my proton app recently and as I was updating it Microsoft edge updater tried installing updates as well for some reason.
I don't even have edge installed. I simply blocked it from having net access but still, they can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut if they think I'm putting that on my system.
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Microsoft ~~Edge~~ Death Grip
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