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> Microsoft leverages its immensely powerful position as the supplier of the ubiquitous Windows PC operating system, as well as many productivity and other must-have apps, to push users towards its first-party browser, Edge, through tactics that restrict, distort and subvert user choice. Heh. This could have been written 25 years ago. Though at least back then, Microsoft was winning. Since then, the market share of I…
All this applies to iOS and safari too
Don't many of these points apply to iOS and Android as well? From this article [0] > Smartphones have become the dominant gateway to the internet. > Mobile Share of Web Requests (Dec 2024) - 63% IMHO, this is far more pernicious and insidious. [0]: https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/device-usage-trends/
Yes. But nowadays iOS lets you install multiple browsers and select default one different from safari.
Don't many of these points apply to iOS and Android as well? From this article [0] > Smartphones have become the dominant gateway to the internet. > Mobile Share of Web Requests (Dec 2024) - 63% IMHO, this is far more pernicious and insidious. [0]: https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/device-usage-trends/
Yes. But nowadays iOS lets you install multiple browsers and select default one different from safari.
I might be years out of the loop if I missed that changing lol
You are not forced to use microsoft, in fact you have consiously paid them to be your OS. You can only beg them to consider this or move to macOS or linux in general.
> You are not forced to use microsoft You absolutely are. That's precisely why they were forced to make the browser not a core part of their OS. The entire strategy of Microsoft has been since its inception to force people to use their solutions! They got the OS on the computer itself, not something to install after with a conscious choice. Once they do this they bundle writer, spreadsheet, etc suite as one-way inter…
> Microsoft leverages its immensely powerful position as the supplier of the ubiquitous Windows PC operating system, as well as many productivity and other must-have apps, to push users towards its first-party browser, Edge, through tactics that restrict, distort and subvert user choice. Heh. This could have been written 25 years ago. Though at least back then, Microsoft was winning. Since then, the market share of I…
So this is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, and the conflict of interest is obvious; Google paid for this article because they want to preserve their own anti-competitive monopoly position.
It's unfortunate that this is where we are with American business in 2026, basically one mafia taking shots at another, but that's what you get when the government gives up on enforcing the law.
> Microsoft leverages its immensely powerful position as the supplier of the ubiquitous Windows PC operating system, as well as many productivity and other must-have apps, to push users towards its first-party browser, Edge, through tactics that restrict, distort and subvert user choice. Heh. This could have been written 25 years ago. Though at least back then, Microsoft was winning. Since then, the market share of I…
Indeed, I can't believe we're still having the same conversation decades later.
And now with Google effectively dictating how you interact with the web, the industry has gotten worse, not better.
I remember Google had a slogan “don’t do evil” (dropped since then). On the top of the list of companies that do evil, I have Microsoft and Adobe. They coerce users and they destroy everything they acquire.