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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by banhfun on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:27PM (#13475149)
Oh no Microsoft accidentally switched the default browsers of the 5 Vivaldi users to Edge.
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by hguant on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:48PM (#13475313)
There are 5 of us?
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by jagermo on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:14AM (#13479941)
Nearly half a dozen!
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by mixedCase on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:37PM (#13476422)
It's time to do the right thing, Vivaldi. Open up the source.
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by jitl on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:54PM (#13474864)
When does Microsoft change the default browser to Edge? I have vague memories of seeing the speed of Edge touted during the Windows 8 to Windows 10 upgrade process, but I also remember being promoted to change my default browser from Edge after the upgrade, without needing to monkey around in Control Center.
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by Clubber on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:30PM (#13477247)
I don't think anyone likes Edge.
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by jagermo on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:17AM (#13479948)
It is not that bad. RES works, LastPass works, Adblocker is fine and on my mobile device, Edge is (for me) the best joice. Yes, it might not be the best browser out there, but Firefox and Chrome just eat up too many resources.

But on desktop I switch between Opera and Vivaldi, and I like them both.

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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by type0 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:52AM (#13480355)
The reasoning from MS perspective is probably that it switches the browser choice because they believe it is the best browser on Windows and the users' decision to switch was simply an incorrect one.
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by Piskvorrr on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:39AM (#13480584)
"...we also believe that your computing cycles are better used elsewhere. Thus, your computer is now being farmed out as a part of a computing platform; your decision to use it for your purposes was incorrect." Is that the logical conclusion you're trying to reach?

(There is an obvious, much darker parable about consent, but I'm not going to use that)

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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by bovermyer on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @10:31AM (#13482163)
Actually, I like Edge. It's not my daily browser, and won't be unless it gets ported to macOS, but I use it about a third of the time on my home PC.
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by bovermyer on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @10:33AM (#13482174)
I have never seen the problem this post refers to. My default browser is Chrome, and has remained such ever since I installed Windows 10. W10 doesn't mess with my settings.
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by mankash666 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:45PM (#13474220)
The post doesn't list any differentiating features of Vivaldi. It just talks about Microsoft's alleged disregard to user's default browser selection. Admittedly, I bought a Windows 10 laptop recently, that's been through multiple OS updates, while retaining my default browser selection.

The post doesn't explain why Vivaldi over Firefox, chrome or edge.

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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by sparky_z on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:41PM (#13474752)
Who said it was it supposed to? Not every corporate blog post has to be a direct sales pitch.
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Re:It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft by stblack on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:40PM (#13474744)
Huh? Why would you expect this to be covered in this article?
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