Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build

Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by dave7 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:38PM (#17971111)

> I worked at MS for a long time. I can say that sort of stuff hasn't happened for quite awhile, and people involved in it happening were fired, some of them rather publicly.

2016 isn't that long ago, and that's just one that was badly-judged enough to have made the news:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-03-18-microsoft-gdc-...

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by com2kid on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:53PM (#17971241)

And people internally were shocked at the stupidity of that event being put on.

The overall feeling inside MS at the time was "wow, that was stupid, hasn't that team being paying attention to how the industry has been changing?"

An even more formal policy change was then sent out, reminding people of dumb stuff they aren't supposed to do.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by vetinari on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:10PM (#17973366)

Are they also shocked by stuff like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_licensing_corruption...

It was nothing in-your-face like strippers, but still pretty immoral.

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