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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by fortran77 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:13AM (#30897518)
Microsoft Surface machines don’t have this. Microsoft doesn’t like it at all.
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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by jeromegv on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:21AM (#30897581)
If Microsoft doesn’t like it, they could prevent OEM from doing it through licensing.

They don’t. It’s been like that for decades.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by forgotpwd16 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:34AM (#30897685)
>they could prevent OEM from doing it through licensing

Preventing installation of third-party software. This will certainly go well in Europe.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by guitarbill on Sunday April 03, 2022 @01:06PM (#30898504)
They could've had e.g. "Windows Fresh" campaign/symbol for vendors to use if it was an unmodified Windows. But there's likely no incentive. It cuts into OEM profit, and maybe it would reduce support calls?

Ultimately though, most people don't care. And the ones that do simply reinstall Windows on a new PC, because it's quicker that way.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by tyrfing on Sunday April 03, 2022 @12:01PM (#30897911)
Unlikely, seems like it would be a huge antitrust issue. Google can't dictate what OEMs install either.
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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by rhexs on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:17AM (#30897550)
Microsoft has every fresh windows 10/11 install automatically download garbage like candy crush. They don’t like it at all?
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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by vikingerik on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:25AM (#30897609)
Microsoft hates McAfee and the other malware packages, because they know full well how badly they screw up all sorts of internal workings of Windows. Much of Microsoft's own tech support workload is caused by shitty antiviruses. The reason Microsoft made Security Essentials / Defender was to deal with that, to displace the others and reduce Microsoft's own support workload.

Candy Crush isn't anything like that, it doesn't screw up OS functionality. (Well, subjectively, you might consider ads and upsells in the UI broken.)

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