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Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

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Re: Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

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"Freedom of choice for customers!

Microsoft edge is bringing me inconvenience. Just because a product is good doesn't mean I'm obligated to use it. I as a customer do not like this browser. I like another one and I want to have the options very clear to download the browser you want. Your browser edge is almost like a virus does not let me download another browser and we know clearly that all this is not to benefit customers and to direct us to the microsoft download store. I can't download another product other than microsoft this seems to me like monopoly syndrome,

I request a change to a list teaching me the steps to have other free browser options, I don't want to remove the edge any more than other options.

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Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/...

Re: Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

#242
post #37

I don't care for edge for the most part, but there is actually one integration with edge that I have come to like. When I click on an email link inside outlook, edge opens the link, and also displays a sidebar which displays the email. Super handy IMO. Somehow we need to find a balance that allows vendors to tightly integrate their apps but prevent abusing this. MS is everyone's favorite whipping boy, but I fear what…

Ubuntu is very usable for a desktop OS.

personally i would recommend zorin os before ubuntu since it has a similar desktop layout to windows or if someone doesnt care about that then pop os is decent as well

Re: Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

#243

On my work computer there is Windows 11, and what we build can only be built on windows. So naturally, I just accept almost all defaults. If you just go along with their (sometimes mindbendingly horrible) choices, you get to actually get work done. Of course it's a wonderful moment to boot up my machine at home, which has ArchLinux on it, with KDE and all the things I chose because I like them, and I'm at least 2x mo…

I go along with whatever our employer policies are and don’t even have much say in for example when windows defender agressively scans and scans and scans slowing my machine to a crawl when Im building a Visual Studio project. It’s infuriating at times but it ain’t on my dime, I try to go along with the program, go for a coffee or walk when building. From minutes it went to 1/4 or 1/3 hours. Good job Microsoft, you’r…

W11 forces Edge as default after every restart? How is that at all tolerated?

Re: Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

#244
"Hey friends :wave:, I call everyone my friend because I am a creepy old Influenza(tm) on TikTok trying to advertise snake poison to young folks. Don't be afraid, I'm just an innocent friendly neighbour hood virtue signalling Microsoft advocate. Look, here I use Edge, here I use Windows 11 with some bullshit hack to run Linux in my terminal and then I use (innocently) a bunch of other toxic Microsoft software to advertise this spyware to you in an unsuspecting way."

Yawn... I think people are slowly waking up to Microsoft and their antics and fake people.

Re: Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

#245

"Hey friends :wave:, I call everyone my friend because I am a creepy old Influenza(tm) on TikTok trying to advertise snake poison to young folks. Don't be afraid, I'm just an innocent friendly neighbour hood virtue signalling Microsoft advocate. Look, here I use Edge, here I use Windows 11 with some bullshit hack to run Linux in my terminal and then I use (innocently) a bunch of other toxic Microsoft software to adve…

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Re: Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

#246

"Freedom of choice for customers! Microsoft edge is bringing me inconvenience. Just because a product is good doesn't mean I'm obligated to use it. I as a customer do not like this browser. I like another one and I want to have the options very clear to download the browser you want. Your browser edge is almost like a virus does not let me download another browser and we know clearly that all this is not to benefit c…

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Re: Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

#247
post #53

I used to be a huge Windows fan, but shoving Edge upon me so aggressively has made me decide it’s time to move on. Moving forward, I’m only buying Apple or Linux devices.

I bought my pre-teen a prebuilt pc for gaming recently. Figured windows 11 would be easier due to compatibility with games and it being pre installed. After screwing with it for several hours to remove as much crap as possible, What I found was that every time it restarted there was a new prompt to reenable something, surreptitiously start using a ms service, etc. I gave up and installed Ubuntu. Not every game works…

Might be worth having a look under Settings / System / Notifications and the check boxes at the bottom of the screen which are:

Show me the Windows welcome experience

Offer suggestions on how I can setup my device

Get Tips and suggestions when I use Windows

(I've posted this in the past, but it does seem to help)

Re: Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

#248

On my work computer there is Windows 11, and what we build can only be built on windows. So naturally, I just accept almost all defaults. If you just go along with their (sometimes mindbendingly horrible) choices, you get to actually get work done. Of course it's a wonderful moment to boot up my machine at home, which has ArchLinux on it, with KDE and all the things I chose because I like them, and I'm at least 2x mo…

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