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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by tw04 on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:14AM (#23574719)
In a vacuum - sure. You have to stop viewing everything through the eyes of a technical user, they have literally billions of end-users. All of them know "internet explorer" which MS is desperately trying to get rid of. It makes absolute perfect sense to walk users through Edge when they're getting rid of the default browser that billions of people expect to be there.

Were you expecting them to just get rid of the old browser and leave users in a lurch? You'd be on here blowing them up for "taking away a browser without any instructions so my grandma is calling me now" instead of whining that they made you actually acknowledge the change.

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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by sleepychu on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:25AM (#23574826)
Not sure if you have experience the unskippable ad but it was egregious. I force quit edge from task manager before it finished but I cannot uninstall Edge from the add or remove programs.

I'm with you, launch a guide on how to use edge as soon as they click on the Internet Explorer icon. Please do not unset my preference of default browser, please do not make me crash your program to avoid your ad... in general why does my start bar get worse every time it changes as it lurches towards an ad display vector.

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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by sk0g on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:18PM (#23575915)
Not being able to uninstall Edge is valid, IMO. How would the average user recover from deleting their only web browser?
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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by sleepychu on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:05PM (#23578361)
Take your point, quite happy to have some alternative to uninstall like "Please hide forever" ala "disable" in Android.
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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by folmar on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:57PM (#23576334)
Have people already lost usb drives, sd cards, bluetooth etc.?
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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by sk0g on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:24PM (#23576723)
You're overestimating the technical aptitude of the average person. If it's not a URL or in an app store, it basically doesn't exist for a lot of people.
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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by folmar on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:54PM (#23595717)
This may be very true for the generations born with tablets, but I'd expect the average layperson to be accustomed to 30 years of installing software or moving things via floppy drives or USB drives, but be wary of getting something from the Internet as it always was the source of malware.
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