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Microsofts Cake is bigger in the Desktop OS market. And everyone wants to have a piece of it as well. And if they can't do it on their own, they even force Microsoft to do so (at least in Europe, where Microsoft had to change it from delivering Windows with just IE to letting the user choose a browser).
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That judgement expired recently, although may be renewed. However, MS could argue that they are no longer in as strong a monopoly position - Android, iOS and Macintosh all have larger shares now.
Personally, I find it more objectionable that Apple will allow no other browsers at all on iOS (unless they use Safari behind the scenes).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Having watched the video, the new UX sucks. I'm fine with making the change in an OS component to prevent crapware from showing deceptive dialogs; but the default apps app ( ) should open with the pick default web browser selector open so all the user has to do is make a single click in it to set their preference.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If you pay attention to what you're clicking during the upgrade, it doesn't change the default browser.
There was one screen which mentioned setting default programs, with an option to customise. Click the customise button, un-tick Microsoft Edge, and the previous default browser is retained.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That is why we are petitioning the Canadian federal government to recognize "Code" as Canada’s third official language. Chris? Is that you?
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Just sign it, OK!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Seriously thinking to relocate there, then...
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Which Code? Enigma? Scouts? Bible? Da Vinci?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Wouldn't that add over 500 languages to Canada's official languages (the Wikipedia "List of Programming Languages" lists over 500 languages).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Just doing the work makes the organization happy "A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change."
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A catalyst super hero ninja on a unicorn?
(Were all tech recruiters/tech journalists conceived during the age of Aquarius?)
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Half of the world's estimated online population now check in to the social networking giant Facebook at least once a month. "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right"
Sorry, that news item made me think of straight razors
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"here I am, stuck in the middle with you."
Good old song.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Half of the world's estimated online population now check in to the social networking giant Facebook at least once a month.
...and more than 2/3 of them (i.e. Internet Users) watch: 'GANGNAM STYLE' by PSY[^]
<lol>Life is 2short 2remove USB safely
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That is quite surprising! I thought I'm in the very minority of those who don't use facebook. But 50% of online population is quite a lot
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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Reverend Lovejoy: Baboons to the left of me, baboons to the right, the speeding locomotive tore through a sea of inhuman fangs. A pair of great apes rose up at me, but biff! Bam! I sent them flying like two hairy footballs. A third came screaming at me, and that's when I got mad...
Homer: Now, that's religion.
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With the release of Windows 10 we also shipped Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10. As you will have heard Universal Windows apps written in .NET (either C# or VB) will be compiled to native machine code before being deployed to customer devices using .NET Native. Whatever happened to JIT?
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Microsoft Corp. won an appeals court ruling that may lower the rates many electronics makers pay to license technology considered standard in smartphones and computers. "When two tribes go to war a point is all you can score"
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Wait what, only because Windows 10 wasn't getting a buck, means no one should? Well played Microsoft, well played!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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With security at the heart of Microsoft's latest operating system, and the general concern about online safety, it makes sense to put Microsoft Edge under the microscope to see how it fares against the competition. "The more things change, the more they stay the same"
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It even run on the same engine. It would have been a lot better to just remove that piece of junk from Windows, and provide us with an option to select Chrome, Firefox, Opera or other browser while installation process.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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They could also just have said: No Flash support on windows 10.
Then finally Flash would die
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