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This is way worse than what Microsoft did back in the day with Internet Explorer. They were forced to build a browser selection popup into their operating system because of that.
Methinks there is a history lesson you haven’t learned.
MS didn’t get into trouble just for bundling their browser. They got into trouble using every strongarm tactic they could think of to kill the browser market. They broke competitors, deliberately crippled APIs while IE used undocumented faster ones, and put IE in customer faces whether they wanted it there or not. MS used this tactic repeatedly to corner other markets, such as productivity suites. That’s why MS got nailed.
It was way worse back then. Nowadays you can actually remove it. Back then they hooked IE into numerous core UI things like the desktop wallpaper and file manager, so any attempt at actually removing it completely fucked your system
How is this not anti competitive behaviour?
because the us govt doesn’t give a shit about monopolies.
EU might get up in their shit though.
I sure hope so.
This is way worse than what Microsoft did back in the day with Internet Explorer. They were forced to build a browser selection popup into their operating system because of that.
And poured every browser and their sister into it just to make the whole selection process shitty.
ARE YOU SUPER DUPER FUCKITY SURE YOU DON’T WANT USE SUPER AWESOMESAUCE EDGE??!
Canada doesnt either. We are run by oligopolies
So blatantly too
It is. Anyone who cares is powerless to change it. Anyone with the power to change it doesn’t care. That goes for a lot of things.
In the same way it’s not anti-competitive for Apple to require Safari on iOS.
Oh wait. It is. But only google and microsoft get in trouble and apple always gets a free pass.
Methinks there is a history lesson you haven’t learned.
MS didn’t get into trouble just for bundling their browser. They got into trouble using every strongarm tactic they could think of to kill the browser market. They broke competitors, deliberately crippled APIs while IE used undocumented faster ones, and put IE in customer faces whether they wanted it there or not. MS used this tactic repeatedly to corner other markets, such as productivity suites. That’s why MS got nailed.
At one point it went from an optional download to being required for the offering system. At that point you weren’t allowed to uninstall it.
Of course that was back before the government was completely owned by tech corporations.
Isn’t that unchanged? Edge is installed by default and I don’t think you can fully remove it…
It was way worse back then. Nowadays you can actually remove it. Back then they hooked IE into numerous core UI things like the desktop wallpaper and file manager, so any attempt at actually removing it completely fucked your system
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/uninstall-microsoft-edge-windows-11
It’s not impossible, but they try pretty hard to prevent it.
Back then, the US government was three corporations in a trenchcoat, *since then they shed the trenchcoat…