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.

Bring out the champagne (Score: 1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-08-04 15:16 (#GD5Z)

A toast!
I dedicate this story
To all the hundreds of idiots on the internet
Who, throughout these years,
Kept insisting that Microsoft had magically changed!

To all of you, babbling idiots!

*drinks and throws the glass behind his back, hoping to hit some VB code monkey and claiming it was by accident*
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