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There are other search engines and one can easily just type bing.com into their browser and set it as the default. Even on Chrome. I'm not sure why you rememb
by SystemOut 8y ago
There are other search engines and one can easily just type bing.com into their browser and set it as the default. Even on Chrome.
I'm not sure why you remember MS the way you do. There was a much much larger barrier for consumers to move to a different OS. If you owned a PC you pretty much had to run Windows. And MS made it extremely difficult to use a non-IE browser in the OS.
That doesn't mean I think they're innocent in all things but I don't see how their search market share is a monopoly target.
- thrower123 8y agoI have never used IE as my primary browser... I'm sort of amazed at anyone that does use the OS-native browser as their default, because it has almost always been an inferior choice.
- vishnugupta 8y agoFor the vast majority of the target audience (i.e., not tech savvy mostly) Internet is the OS-native browser. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't know what a "browser" is in the first place. As an analogy, during my childhood days when photocopiers came out in India they were mostly Xerox machines. So Xerox became a verb and has stayed a verb to this day. So much so that you will find "Xerox shops"[1] in all Indian cities and people won't understand what a photocopier shop is :-) [1]: https://goo.gl/maps/M2TSWXLfqc22 https://goo.gl/maps/M2TSWXLfqc22
- pixl97 8y agoOne can easily install firefox on windows... That didn't work for Microsoft back then either