Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95. 98, Me, 2000, and XP

Re:Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95... by MuffinFlavored on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:24PM (#36636174)

> I hate edge.

It's a thin wrapper around Blink just like Chrome/Chromium. What is there to "hate"?

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Re:Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95... by WarOnPrivacy on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:32PM (#36636316)

> What is there to "hate"?

The endless fluff and clutter to clean up (Search bar appearing on desktop, sidebar foistware). The relentless marketing and push of adjacent services (Bing AI).

The passive-aggressive IE compatibility mode (unremovable nag banner to stop using IECM, your Legacy App URLs expire after 30 days for no good reason).

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Re:Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95... by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:31PM (#36637151)

Edge allegedly manages to be worse at privacy than Chrome: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/03/07/0054219/edge-brows...

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Re:Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95... by hospitalJail on Friday July 07, 2023 @04:18PM (#36637743)

So many ads on the home page.

'turn it off'

I did. But its not intuitive, its some settings button that is semi-transparent. I literally had to google/bing it.

The inital setup was awful.

Then it opening all my links in edge was not okay. I'm signed in on firefox, I don't want things opening in edge.

I can't remember, I gave up after the whole BingGPT thing was a let down.

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