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I wonder how much money Microsoft is making by not respecting user choices in non European countries. I also wonder how much money they invested in the legal h

• formerly_proven 3y ago
  Microsoft is clearly playing on Ultra Violence level here in an attempt to force as much Edge market share as technically possible. I guess someone pretty high up has their bonuses tied to those numbers.
  • Traubenfuchs 3y ago
    It's on the same embarrassing level as putting candy crush in the start menu.
    • formerly_proven 3y ago
      After installing some updates (on a 10 Pro machine) recently I got a nice modal pop-up begging me to change my default search engine in Chrome (which I don't even use) to Bing. (Hey, at least they asked, I guess - next security update will just set bing as the search engine in all browsers, just like IE toolbar malware from 2004). Whole operating system just comes off as super shady and desperate since Windows 10 - feels a lot like fake antivirus malwares from the 2000s. It has always been pushy in this millennium, sometimes for a good reason (updates are important), but all of this is without any decent reason. Installing those updates of course also re-enabled automatically installing drivers without any prompt, which promptly caused the Nahamic malware to be re-installed through Windows Update. Somehow most IT people are not bothered by this. I imagine if you would tell this stuff to a mid-2000s IT person their head would simply explode.