Dear Microsoft, enough is enough

giuliomagnifico 12 points 2 comments June 05, 2026
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> Microsoft leverages its immensely powerful position as the supplier of the ubiquitous Windows PC operating system, as well as many productivity and other must-have apps, to push users towards its first-party browser, Edge, through tactics that restrict, distort and subvert user choice. Heh. This could have been written 25 years ago. Though at least back then, Microsoft was winning. Since then, the market share of IE/Edge has become so irrelevant that most people have stopped caring so much about these tactics. At this point, it mostly just comes across as adorable when Windows tries to push you to use Edge. Like "wow, they're still trying."

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