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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
#52Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#53Some sleep deprived developer typed firefox instead of internet explorer.
Honestly the way it reads it was probably intended for Internet Explorer users but it smartly chose to display the default browser. Would love to see if it shows different for someone with only Chrome or Chrome as a default, vs someone with IE still installed.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#54The old Edge is one of the best Epub readers I have ever used.
The new Edge, I have no reason at all to use it over Firefox. I hope no banking website makes it necessary to use Edge, as it happened with previous Microsoft browsers.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Isn't windows free now?
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#56It is the Microsoft sleight of hand. One hand is showing you want you want to see; Open Source initiatives, developer glad-handing, etc. While the other hand does this.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#57Microsoft 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 tim…
> put it in a pinned taskbar position with a new icon and a notification bubble [...] less annoying
I have to disagree here. Messing with people's pinned taskbar icons is much more intrusive than a suggestion (which anyone sane has already disabled)
> why are they so heavy handed on the windows side of things
I'm sorry but that's pretty funny right before suggesting to literally change users settings without their consent.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
- Linux isn't very user friendly to begin with, whether it's in the form of OS usage or apps that you're used to.
- A lot of people, including myself, grew up with Windows. Switching right now, after tens of years of usage, seems unnecessary still.
- WARNING, personal opinion: Windows is the only platform for gamers.
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#59This, and every other screw-up in the same vein, is why those of us old enough to remember the Halloween documents don't buy the whole "new Microsoft" thing. Want to get me to try Edge? Great -- instead of a passive-aggressive ad, try telling me how it's better than Firefox and why I'd like to use it instead. What will it get me? Better privacy? Better performance? Better development tools? Cynically, it's amazing th…
Over the last couple of years I've been coming round to the fact that microsoft aren't necessarily a major problem now, compared to google and amazon at least.
Doesn't take much to put the shields back upto full.
I just don't understand why people run windows. Maybe I just use computers wrong, having been on linux for the last 20 years, but my family (who I refuse to help with IT needs) are all far happier on chromebooks than on windows
Re: Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
#60I think Microsoft has every right to suggest their own browser.
Chrome does it. Firefox does it. You have to opt out of the reminder. So you have to opt out of Start menu ads.
Big deal.
Can we focus on something slighty less trivial please?