When the AV company got caught, they said they did it to check whether or not customers visited malicious websites. Just look at all the news stories in the past two months regarding browser extensions and even anti-virus programs secretly collecting it. Today, every company wants to harvest, data mine, and sell your web browsing history. Given their previous bad behavior, I’m not sure why anyone would expect better conduct from Microsoft now.īTW Edge is safer = sends all your web browsing data to Microsoft. Proudly brought to you by the company that equates clicking a red X with granting permission to “go ahead and install Windows 10 anyway when I’m not looking”. Microsoft, stop the annoyance that is only going to drive people away, and gain back some of your almost completely destroyed (muddled by nag- and spyware) dignity. I imagine that their defeat in the mobile sector hurts them the most, as a great many services are being run on mobile devices these days, and are thus hurting their other business units. Microsoft should just accept defeat in areas where they cannot win anymore. ![]() Although, to be fair, Apple also prompts its users to “try out the new Safari” in macOS, albeit after another browser is installed already. Those people joined the crowd that has already installed Chrome in the years prior to Android, due to Chrome offering the better user experience and an aggressive promotion on Google’s sites, most prominently Google Mail and YouTube.Ī true dilemma from Microsoft’s point of view, making them desperate enough to push this nonsense on their users. However, most people own Android phones and are thus already using Chrome on the go for the most part. While they have given up on the smartphones, it seems as if they are still aggressively pushing their Edge browser. Microsoft has lost in three major fields, those fields being Internet applications, mobile devices, and search engines. Now You: What is your take on the prompt? Microsoft has released Edge for Android and the browser has been well received by Android users. Microsoft stated in 2017 that Edge usage had doubled but third-party usage tracking service still see the browser lag behind Chrome, Firefox and even Internet Explorer in usage share. Microsoft Edge is not doing so well despite the fact that it is the default web browser on Windows 10. Whether the intercepting will land in the soon to be released stable version of Windows 10 version 1809, the October 2018 Update, remains to be seen. Again, this happens only in Windows 10 version 1809 on the Insider channel. I tried to install Chrome Stable and Firefox Stable, and both installations were intercepted by the prompt. Judging from the current implementation it will be opt-out which means that the intercepting prompts are displayed to all users by default who attempt third-party software installations. While it seems that Microsoft plans to integrate an option to disable these "warnings", it remains to be seen how that will look like. There is also a chance that Microsoft would push its own products when users attempt to install other products: think a third-party media player, screenshot tool, image editor, or text editor. It seems likely that such a prompt would result in higher than usual exits from installation if the intercepting prompt lands in stable versions of Windows. The prompt that Microsoft displays claims that Edge is safer and faster, and it puts the Open Microsoft Edge button on focus and not the "install anyway" button. A user who initiates the installation of a browser does so on purpose. The intercepting of installers on Windows is a new low, however. Google pushes Chrome on all of its properties when users use different browsers to connect to them, and Microsoft too displayed notifications on the Windows 10 platform to users who used other browsers that Edge was more secure or power friendly. While there is certainly a chance that Microsoft is just testing things in preview versions of Windows, it is equally possible that such a setting will land in the next feature update for Windows 10.Ĭompanies like Google or Microsoft have used their market position in the past to push their own products. ![]() There is also an option to disable the warning type in the future but that leads to the Apps listing of the Settings application and no option to do anything about that. Options provided are to open Microsoft Edge or install the other browser anyway. The intermediary screen that interrupts the installation states that Edge is installed on the device and that it is safer and faster than the browser that the user was about to install on the device.
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