Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
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Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
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Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#2Never saw these adds, as I disabled it all. But that's ridiculous.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#3Those idiots at Mozilla have driven away there power users and third party developers.. with all there hair brained choices over the years... Fuck Em
Right now is the only choice is which Chromium clone you want to use.. Frankly Vivaldi shits and pisses on all of them.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#4Never saw these adds, as I disabled it all. But that's ridiculous.
Building adds into the start menu search is ridiculous.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#5Some sleep deprived developer typed firefox instead of internet explorer.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#6Microsoft doing shady stuff again.
It's really a shame. The engineering that the teams at Microsoft put to the kernel and the actual operating system at large is amazing.
But then some Product Management division decides to shove this shit down people's throat and, for me at least, ruins all the fun of what would is otherwise an amazing piece of an operating system.
I paid for an operating system, just let me use the damn thing in peace will you ...
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#7Does anyone know enough to comment on how this jives with the settlement that Microsoft reached with the EU around 2010 over accusations of leveraging their monopoly in operating systems to drive user choice in browsers?
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#8Not as bad as the one they put over the top of a pinned chrome icon on the start menu a few times.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#9Never saw these adds, as I disabled it all. But that's ridiculous.
Building adds into the start menu search is ridiculous.
How do normal people (who use Windows) think that this is ok? In what universe is that possibly ok - to put ads in a paid-for OS? No matter the context, no matter the version of an os, no matter the reason, no matter what the ads are for, no matter that they could through some questionable hacking or editing be removed - ads in a paid-for OS. Has the whole world gone crazy? What is going on here?
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#10Microsoft doing shady stuff again. It's really a shame. The engineering that the teams at Microsoft put to the kernel and the actual operating system at large is amazing. But then some Product Management division decides to shove this shit down people's throat and, for me at least, ruins all the fun of what would is otherwise an amazing piece of an operating system. I paid for an operating system, just let me use the…
I feel largely the same... they build some really cool things, and developer division, the azure guys and .net core guys I've talked to are all great... why are they so heavy handed on the windows side of things, I don't get.
Just auto-update edge and put it in a pinned taskbar position with a new icon and a notification bubble... no need to disparage anything, it'd be more assertive and less annoying at the same time.