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If you use Edge, I suppose you already paid for Windows, didn't you? Will similar "features" appear also in Notepad, Calculator, Character Map, etc.? Because,

If you use Edge, I suppose you already paid for Windows, didn't you? Will similar "features" appear also in Notepad, Calculator, Character Map, etc.? Because, technically, you didn't pay for them either, they are just free application that got installed with Windows. Okay, maybe it is not as bad as I make it sound. Perhaps it would be nice if anytime you display a unicode character in Character Map, it offered you an option to buy a t-shirt with this character printed...

cube00 5y ago
Notepad now has "Search with Bing" in its Edit menu and it can't be changed to another search engine.
- krono 5y ago
  And a "Search Bing in Sidebar" context menu option when selecting text. And the default Chromium keyboard shortcut for searching selected text with your default search engine has been hardcoded to open Bing. And the new tab page searchbar takes an extra step to have it not search Bing when you have configured a different default search engine. And recently they added a neat search button in browser console events. Unfortunately it only does Bing, and news articles about Amazon worker strikes are not helpful when debugging web worker errors.... There's a lot of good stuff happening with this browser, but I'm definitely getting close to my breaking point.
  - siproprio 5y ago
    There's nothing good happening on edge. The only thing happening are those sorts of things. It's also funny how for example they still manage to get basic things wrong, like a smooth and instantaneous gui, good design (made to improve user experience, rather than cross-selling), etc.
- selfhoster11 5y ago
  That is brazen and repulsive. I cannot possibly imagine a "Search with MSN" menu item on the Windows XP Notepad.
- siproprio 5y ago
  God for some reason I just hate these "features" that are designed to push Bing and Ads. I still remember they had to kill cortana because the implementation was universally hated by people.
nrclark 5y ago
Freecell has ads in it now, and tries to push a subscription service. Microsoft is really doing themselves a dirty by trying to nickel-and-dime its customers with stuff like this.

cube00 5y ago

Notepad now has "Search with Bing" in its Edit menu and it can't be changed to another search engine.

krono 5y ago
And a "Search Bing in Sidebar" context menu option when selecting text. And the default Chromium keyboard shortcut for searching selected text with your default search engine has been hardcoded to open Bing. And the new tab page searchbar takes an extra step to have it not search Bing when you have configured a different default search engine. And recently they added a neat search button in browser console events. Unfortunately it only does Bing, and news articles about Amazon worker strikes are not helpful when debugging web worker errors.... There's a lot of good stuff happening with this browser, but I'm definitely getting close to my breaking point.
- siproprio 5y ago
  There's nothing good happening on edge. The only thing happening are those sorts of things. It's also funny how for example they still manage to get basic things wrong, like a smooth and instantaneous gui, good design (made to improve user experience, rather than cross-selling), etc.
selfhoster11 5y ago
That is brazen and repulsive. I cannot possibly imagine a "Search with MSN" menu item on the Windows XP Notepad.
siproprio 5y ago
God for some reason I just hate these "features" that are designed to push Bing and Ads. I still remember they had to kill cortana because the implementation was universally hated by people.

nrclark 5y ago

Freecell has ads in it now, and tries to push a subscription service. Microsoft is really doing themselves a dirty by trying to nickel-and-dime its customers with stuff like this.