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

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

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Ok, so I don’t condone this behavior by Microsoft or Google, but I do use edge at work since we are a Microsoft heavy company with Sharepoint, teams, outlook, and all that. If we were using Google I’d surely use Chrome, but edge bakes in your Microsoft work profile to the browser and when searching on Bing you can find documents on your internal network easily. I also like the fact that edge supports vertical tabs ou…

"these other people are acting shitty so its totally ok for us to do it" - quick way to identify ass holes. We shouldn't always race to the bottom under the guise of "we have to do it to stay competitive". You don't have to do it, you're just an ass hole.

- not talking about gp specifically. Just folks who make those sorts of decisions off such busted premises.

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

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

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

Ok I'll give it a go in good faith the next time I have a problem.

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

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Whataboutism. Google probably also deserves this treatment, but we're talking about Microsoft.

It's not whataboutism, it's pointing out that Microsoft is not the only actor using such tactics. Everyone should be treated the same.

> Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy, which attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving the argument.

Let's look at your post again:

> 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?

If that isn't whataboutism, then you really ought to work on better phrasing your thoughts.

Microsoft is doing bad thing. That Google is also doing bad thing is irrelevant to the discussion about Microsoft doing bad thing.

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