It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft
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In the early days, MS was forced by the EU Trade Commission to provide a neutral Browser selection utility in XP to avoid unfairly preference of IE compared to other Browsers. This is not only a technical question. Other (small) software manufacturers like Vivaldi needs a fairly chance to get new, non-technical skilled users.
What Microsoft do is contrary to this. If a user chooses Vivaldi or FF or Chrome or whatelse, and his OS re-sets Edge for Default one time, two times, more times, some user would say: Shut up, this Vivaldi or FF or Chrome does not working fine. I'm simply want to view "the Internet". So i can use Edge and i have my Rest.
Non-professional users are different from most of us. As i see every day in my job, non-pros goes often "the way of least resistance". Microsoft takes an unfair advantage from this fact. Intentional or as a collateral damage by software update mechanisms.
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I think Microsoft, instead of thinking "How do we make Edge better?", goes like, "How can we force Edge into more users?" Instead of improving their software, they spend development time on "improving" the parts of their OS that forces users into Edge.
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@NSANE said in It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft:
@whizzwr: MS was shit in Opera days. I don't want to sound like a shill, but MS has improved very, very much in these last 5 years. UWP is awesome. What they're doing with Windows 10 in general is pretty great and they're enabling a lot of people (like myself) to have a free Windows license if we're students or run a business.
Since they don't make the most money out of the OS (they're mostly cloud now), I'm predicting that they might considering bridging Linux some day, or even make a fork of it. They already have VS Code which is Open Source.
I support Jon regardless! I'm a fan
Microsoft is only 'hugging up' to Linux because of the amount of Linux clients on their Azure program, which when Steve Ballmer was still in charge, 30% of their clients were Linux ones. Surely that's grown by now & that's the sole reason why today's CEO in Satya Nadella to come out & say 'We Love Linux'.
Of course he does, now that Ballmer is gone, more clients has signed up & we all love money. If Nadella truly 'loves' Linux, then he'd port the EOL OS's over for Linux devs to fork & patch/keep up to date. There would still be a market for XP, if only there were ways to fix the now 200+ missed patches that W7 & Vista received.
Anyone W10 user with a NVIDIA graphics card had best have Secunia PSI installed, as the latest bundle includes 'node.js' (a LInux Foundation product), like Java (if installed) & Flash Player, node.js is a plug in that needs to be kept up to date. The new NVIDIA driver bundle includes a version that's 3-4 releases behind. By chance, Microsoft bought themselves a Platinum membership to the Linux Foundation just months after Windows users were being shipped outdated Linux Foundation software.
If anything, Microsoft is simply using Linux to gain more control over Windows users. Windows 7 was Microsoft's best OS, and the pinnacle of Steve Ballmer's career. SInce then, it's been a mess, hundreds of millions of dollars were poured into Windows 8, while the World's #1 OS to this day doesn't have a real SP2. If anyone thinks that XP diehards were a problem, wait until 2020 when W7 reaches EOL, there'll be those running the OS for easily 2-3 more years & still have a 25% or higher market share after then.
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