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Not the same thing because Microsoft never tried to prevent the user from installing Firefox or Chrome.
by hollerith 4y ago
Not the same thing because Microsoft never tried to prevent the user from installing Firefox or Chrome.
- ok_dad 4y agoNetscape Navigator, probably. I don't think Mozilla was around quite yet, certainly not Chrome.
- squarefoot 4y agoFrom their position of power they don't need anymore to prevent users from installing other browsers; it's enough for them to continuously pester the user with annoying requests to make their own the default one until the user surrenders. For 99.999% of users, a browser that doesn't load by default and a browser that is not installed are essentially the same thing.
- dylan604 4y agoAny push back against allowing a user to do whatever the user wants is the same thing in my book. Microsoft has recently made it harder to use non-MS browsers. If you want to play a game of semantics, then sure, point to you. If you want to just have a normal conversation about users doing what they want, then I'd say you're outside of the lines on that last shot.