Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
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Re: Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
#2The hidden bigger news here is that IE11 (and legacy Edge) finally have an official EOL date of August 17, 2021. The true end of an era.
Re: Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
#3The hidden bigger news here is that IE11 (and legacy Edge) finally have an official EOL date of August 17, 2021. The true end of an era.
That was my take, too. I really don't mind if the vendor has a standard browser installed, as long as you can install others and make it the default. That's way more than Apple does on iOS!
Re: Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
#4The hidden bigger news here is that IE11 (and legacy Edge) finally have an official EOL date of August 17, 2021. The true end of an era.
AFAICT it's only support for IE11 on their product web sites like Office 365.
Re: Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
#5The strangest part is that they didn’t fully replace the behavior of the old version. If you place the OS in kiosk mode when the new Edge is installed and try to run a browser, it just goes into a loop trying to load the old one and blocking it. It’s not possible to use the new Edge for a kiosk, probably because it doesn’t use the Windows store. There is a separate kiosk browser in the store, but it isn’t integrated with the OS and lacks any simple configuration options. Maybe they just want people to use Linux kiosks instead.
Re: Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
#6Maybe I’m in a minority, but it’s really a pretty good browser. I wish it supported a few more features with the PDF reader (such as text box annotations). However, it still has way more features in that space than most competitors.
Re: Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
#7So wait. You can fully get rid of it using a set of shell commands? How is this not Linux?
Re: Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
#8This is IMHO the really fun part (already posted on an earlier thread):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24178631
Interestingly enough, going to that URL with an unsupported browser (QTWeb) I got:
Your browser is out-of-date
You need to update your browser to use the site.
Update to the latest version of Internet Explorer
Re: Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
#9Maybe I’m in a minority, but it’s really a pretty good browser. I wish it supported a few more features with the PDF reader (such as text box annotations). However, it still has way more features in that space than most competitors.
I've briefly played around with it and it seems alright. I just don't trust Microsoft from a privacy perspective, and I don't want to reward their shitty behavior of pushing it on users.
Re: Microsoft’s ‘can’t uninstall Microsoft Edge’ support page
#10This is a pretty sane move on MS's part...
I find it reasonable that an OS doesn't let you remove what may be the only browser on the system, for a lot of reasons.
I read this as a push to really ditch IE in the very near future, and don't really mind at all.
In no particular order
- Something has to provide a native webview for desktop applications
- MS has no default package manager for users, and doesn't provide browser downloads on their "store" (or at least I wasn't able to find any, I may be missing something). So removing the browser may leave a user unable to bootstrap another browser onto the system (at least once IE is actually gone) without outside help or another machine.
- The browser itself takes up a pretty negligible amount of disk space, there isn't really any benefit to removing it (unless MS is playing dirty and starting it behind the scenes, but at least in my usage, I haven't seen this). So these users don't want it "GONE", they just want to desktop shortcut removed (and I actually agree, MS shouldn't push as hard here).
- There are lots of system integrations that expect at least one browser to exist, removing the only shipped browser may break these, or add a lot of complexity to some feature implementations.