Windows 10 changes users’ default browser to Microsoft Edge

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Over at Microsoft, they have a new browser called Edge that is part of Windows 10, and they'd really like everyone to use it. Edge replaces Internet Explorer, which has fallen from a peak of about 95% usage share during 2003 to as low as 13% today. The new version of Windows steamrolls over a user's preferred application settings and makes Microsoft's Edge browser the default. "[T]he design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more difficult," Mozilla CEO Beard explains in an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Windows 10 is a free upgrade for current home users of Windows 7 or 8, which means that it's sure to become popular.

Mozilla is not fond of this change. They have put together an education campaign to show users how to get Mozilla's Firefox back as their default browser after they've already upgraded: it's less than a minute long, but it has become a more complex multi-step process not everyone will be able to figure out. Microsoft hasn't responded to Mozilla's queries about the situation or why Windows installation overrides the user's current preferences.

Re: sure they're proud (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2015-08-03 19:49 (#GAM1)

Looks interesting and thanks for the link, but Opera fit me like a glove from 2001 til about 2014. Then new management drove my favorite browser like the Costa Concordia along the Italian shoreline. Really looking forward to Vivaldi and just hoping FreeBSD's Linux emulation allows me to run it on FreeBSD, since that's my current OS.
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