• simdlauper@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    No longer providing a browser with a consumer operating system is a bad idea. How would you install another browser?

    They just need to stop plugging and advertising it so relentlessly.

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        1 year ago

        It has built in package manager now (winget install Mozilla.Firefox would install Firefox on clean Win11 installation).

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          1 year ago

          IK I was just poking fun at windows, but the average user (a grandma or other non-tech literate person) won’t know it even exists, plus it doesn’t resolve the issue that, aside from a few maybe legal scripts, you can’t uninstall edge. Still a step in the good direction though.

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          1 year ago

          This is interesting news to me. I’ll have to poke around to see if Windows 10 got one too.

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      1 year ago

      Sure it’s okay they come with a browser, but you should be able to uninstall edge after you’ve downloaded another browser

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      That’s the Windows 95 lawsuit all over again. They forced internet explorer on people, got sued for creating & exploiting a monopoly, lost, and had to offer people the chance to remove it.

      They claimed it’s integral part of the OS, and so were forced to un-integrate it.

      I’m sure they will find a way to give users a choice to get rid of Edge, if they really wanted to were forced yet again.