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Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

danaris wrote: post #94
loudtieblahblah wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i just don't see the point, from a consumer perspective, in all the major players fighting over who's version of Chromium is the most preferred. I get why the company's care - i just don't get why anyone else does. Firefox, for all it's modern faults, is the only browser that's actually different in any substantial way.

> Firefox, for all it's modern faults, is the only browser that's actually different in any substantial way. ...Because apparently Safari no longer exists...?

And where can I download the current build of Safari for Windows?

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

#102

Post by ZetaZero »

hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #78
kgwxd wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows releases always alternates between horrible and good enough. 11 will fester on some machines for a while like 8, Vista and ME did. Enterprise will stick to 10, and anyone who cares enough to fight dark patterns every time Windows update runs. 12 will likely be good enough for everyone to upgrade. 14 (they'll skip #13) will be garbo, 15 will be ok. Sun goes up, sun goes down.

Yeah, I think actually 11 is just a testing ground for 12.

Exactly. Like Vista was laying the table for 7.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

#103

Post by nixgeek »

yrro wrote: post #86
NikolaeVarius wrote: post #66

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What the hell are you doing with your Windows profiles. I've admin'd many Windows machines and have a Windows install AND a VM windows install and have literally never had a problem with windows profile. Have you at least attempted to debug the issue, or can you point to a issue report you have filed? This is someone who uses linux for 99.99% of all computing things, so its not like I'm a Windows shill

Filing an issue report? Against Windows? Are you joking?

Feedback Hub exists and has been useful to me on several occasions.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

#104

Post by majkinetor »

loudtieblahblah wrote: post #88
mynameismon wrote: post #63

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That is exactly what I love about Windows 11 particularly. I don't have to deal the abdominations like Microsoft News, just a winget away. Don't like Edge? winget uninstall -e "Microsoft.Edge"

i look at advancements like this in Windows and think it's really cool. But after spending so many years, especially in the late 90s and early 2000s, getting shit from a bunch of khaki wearing, corporate butt kissing MSCE types about how Linux is "get what you pay for" and constantly mocking that all this "free software can't do anything" and then sitting back and watching Linux empowering cloud computing, Unix/Linux…

And F* shitty Linux users with stupid names, horrid and unsecure desktop, and irrelevant topics.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

#105

Post by danaris »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #101
danaris wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Firefox, for all it's modern faults, is the only browser that's actually different in any substantial way. ...Because apparently Safari no longer exists...?

And where can I download the current build of Safari for Windows?

They didn't say anything about "...for Windows." They said the only browser.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

#106

Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

yrro wrote: post #86
NikolaeVarius wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the hell are you doing with your Windows profiles. I've admin'd many Windows machines and have a Windows install AND a VM windows install and have literally never had a problem with windows profile. Have you at least attempted to debug the issue, or can you point to a issue report you have filed? This is someone who uses linux for 99.99% of all computing things, so its not like I'm a Windows shill

Filing an issue report? Against Windows? Are you joking?

Unfortunately true. Microsoft support these days, even the paid support, is a complete trainwreck. We had cause to open 2 separate tickets for two separate issues lately. One of them was clearly a bug, has a community forum issue about it with oodles of data provided, and nearly a month in to the ticket I'm still getting 'try this configuration' style bullshit from some low-level tech. I would expect that for free, but for paid support?

The other issue is being handled by the DBA but it sounds like he's getting a similar treatment.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

#107

Post by zvrba »

sofixa wrote: post #39

I hope Margrethe Vestager is paying attention, this bullshit is getting egregious. Microsoft not only deserve a fine, but a thorough breaking up into multiple separate entities.

Really? What does Google deserve when it nags me about switching to chrome whenever I use any of their pages from a browser that's not chrome?

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

#108

Post by bityard »

catfishx wrote: post #15
IiydAbITMvJkqKf wrote: post #8

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Firefox' market share is low enough that I'd be surprised if Microsoft wasted even one developer hour implementing this for Firefox downloads.

Well, its almost as high as Edges market share

"Almost as high" is a strange way to put it since its popularity has been dropping steadily over the last decade. And Edge market share is only going up.

Now that Firefox is no longer in the top 3 (in the Western market, further down world-wide), we can expect it to lose relevance even more quickly. Especially since Mozilla leadership has studiously avoided any effort to differentiate themselves from from Google/Chrome. They missed a huge chance to become The Privacy Browser that puts users in control of their web experience when Google and Facebook recently got all that bad press about privacy violations and monopolistic behavior.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

#109

Post by hef19898 »

benttoothpaste wrote: post #20
thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #10

"Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft." They named their user tracking, telemetry, and "Buy Now, Pay Later" add-ons "trust"? That's really Orwellian.

It just means Microsoft trusts this technology.

But they developed it!

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

#110

Post by ChuckNorris89 »

danaris wrote: post #105
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And where can I download the current build of Safari for Windows?

They didn't say anything about "...for Windows." They said the only browser .

The topic is about windows 11 and Edge and the discussion continued on alternative that are not chromium based ... for Windows, since this is the topic.

Where does Safari fit in here?

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