While Microsoft celebrates the 14 million installations of Windows 10 in just 24 hours, a controversy darken the festivities. The CEO of Mozilla, Chris Beard, wrote an open letter to his counterpart at Microsoft, Satya Nadella to demand respect for user choice for their Internet browsing. Indeed, during the upgrade to Windows 10, Microsoft decided to replace the default browser selected by the user (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.) by its new browser home. Edge
Firefox editor is sickened by this maneuver, intended to replace in his user choice “by that of Microsoft.” If it is possible to preserve its default preferences, the scenario of the installation “has been modified to make the operation less instinctive and more complicated,” and “we must now more than twice as many clicks” to order Windows to keep the favorite browser, denounced Chris Beard.
Imposing Edge
We conducted several installations of Windows 10, and it is true that we have systematically lost preferences for certain software default (this also includes the photo viewer, for example), without ever seeing option to preserve them. Things are so unclear that Mozilla has published a guide to find his default browser, if you upgrade to Windows 10 was “crushed”.
Meanwhile, Microsoft defends itself by asserting during and after the upgrade, “users can easily choose their default browser.” “If we have returns that show that improvements are possible, we will make them,” says a spokesman. Microsoft has a heavy liability controversies with browsers: eg he had been convicted in Europe for imposing Internet Explorer in Windows, decision following which Windows users had seen (finally) to a screen of “browser choice “when you first start.
Before the rise of Firefox and Chrome, Microsoft had decided to reform its development teams in Internet Explorer, which worked hard to offer today New Edge browser built into Windows 10. If Edge is much more modern and standards compliant Internet Explorer, this is not an excuse for Microsoft imposes by using its virtual hegemony over the systems PC operating. The success would be good to Edge if users did the approach of themselves …
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