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Can someone who is part of a bigger organization describe to me how this might happen, and what is the ultimate intent? Who would make such a decision and why i
by frebord 8y ago
Can someone who is part of a bigger organization describe to me how this might happen, and what is the ultimate intent? Who would make such a decision and why isn't there any push back along the way to implementing it?
- aj_g 8y agoWas just about to post asking the same question. If you look closely, is this just the result of some MSFT PM trying to meet some quantitative metric for Edge usage? Or is this the result of a coordinated decision, approved by multiple levels of management? Have never experienced a large corporate structure, so I'm quite curious.
- sangnoir 8y agoPointy-haired boss: "I've been looking at our numbers and they aren't great - Google is getting a lot of installs via their Chrome ads on Google properties. Is there anything we can do to stop them stealing users from Edge? We control the desktop, right?" Engineering lead: "I'll ask the Edge team to add an overlay when the user visits a Chrome download URL, but that might change. The installers are signed though, so we could check the package name and author at install time..." Boss: "Great! Go for it- give me a timeline, this has highest priority for the realease in N weeks"