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I don't get why they bothered to create this. It just seems hostile to users and normalizes a behavior that could expose them to malware.

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ocdtrekkie 9y ago
If you go into the Store, the now prominent way to get apps on a new Windows PC, searching for Chrome shows a lot of low quality apps like "Chrome Guides" and such. Putting the official installer (even as just a link) in the Store will help people find Chrome who don't realize it isn't in the Microsoft Store. I'd argue Microsoft could benefit from doing this for a variety of common apps users are looking for, if they want the Microsoft Store to become the default/canonical place people look for software for their PCs.
- PascLeRasc 9y ago
  That's actually rather mature of Microsoft to do. It'll be nice to get to open IE zero times instead of once to install Chrome on a new PC now.
  - WorldMaker 9y ago
    There is no IE anymore. In Windows 10 you already open IE zero times. There is still a blue E icon, but Edge is not IE.
    - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
      This is false. If you had ever switched default browsers on Windows 10, you'd notice Internet Explorer not only still exists, but is on every Windows 10 PC. Most businesses which use Windows 10 still default to it. Beyond that, Edge is definitely a fresh UI, but it's still based, at it's core, on the last version of IE. Some of the same particularly odd IE quirks (particularly with SVGs) still exist in Edge, though it's much more standards-compliant than older IE versions.
      - WorldMaker 9y ago
        I think its increasingly disingenuous to refer to Edge as IE. IE11 only exists in Windows 10 because Edge hard forked enough that the majority of weird quirks only work in the zombie IE11. Any business switching the Windows 10 default browser to IE11 is definitely doing something wrong. Any consumer that opens IE11 even once is probably doing something wrong.
        ocdtrekkie 9y ago
        Sure, I wouldn't refer to Edge as 'IE', but the notion that IE "doesn't exist" is equally silly. I think you'd be shocked to discover: Most corporate environments still default to IE, including if they use Windows 10. This is mostly because of archaic things like Java applications which tend to insist on it, or even in some cases, dependencies on ActiveX controls in legacy software. I think everyone in the corporate space is counting the days until they can switch, but the light at the end of the tunnel still seems somewhat far off.

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ocdtrekkie 9y ago

If you go into the Store, the now prominent way to get apps on a new Windows PC, searching for Chrome shows a lot of low quality apps like "Chrome Guides" and such. Putting the official installer (even as just a link) in the Store will help people find Chrome who don't realize it isn't in the Microsoft Store. I'd argue Microsoft could benefit from doing this for a variety of common apps users are looking for, if they want the Microsoft Store to become the default/canonical place people look for software for their PCs.

PascLeRasc 9y ago
That's actually rather mature of Microsoft to do. It'll be nice to get to open IE zero times instead of once to install Chrome on a new PC now.
- WorldMaker 9y ago
  There is no IE anymore. In Windows 10 you already open IE zero times. There is still a blue E icon, but Edge is not IE.
  - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    This is false. If you had ever switched default browsers on Windows 10, you'd notice Internet Explorer not only still exists, but is on every Windows 10 PC. Most businesses which use Windows 10 still default to it. Beyond that, Edge is definitely a fresh UI, but it's still based, at it's core, on the last version of IE. Some of the same particularly odd IE quirks (particularly with SVGs) still exist in Edge, though it's much more standards-compliant than older IE versions.
    - WorldMaker 9y ago
      I think its increasingly disingenuous to refer to Edge as IE. IE11 only exists in Windows 10 because Edge hard forked enough that the majority of weird quirks only work in the zombie IE11. Any business switching the Windows 10 default browser to IE11 is definitely doing something wrong. Any consumer that opens IE11 even once is probably doing something wrong.
      - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
        Sure, I wouldn't refer to Edge as 'IE', but the notion that IE "doesn't exist" is equally silly. I think you'd be shocked to discover: Most corporate environments still default to IE, including if they use Windows 10. This is mostly because of archaic things like Java applications which tend to insist on it, or even in some cases, dependencies on ActiveX controls in legacy software. I think everyone in the corporate space is counting the days until they can switch, but the light at the end of the tunnel still seems somewhat far off.