Re:Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
by noobdev9000 on Monday September 11, 2023 @12:05AM
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It's their OS. Seems like an odd issue.
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Re:Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
by gleenn on Monday September 11, 2023 @12:11AM
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Wasn't there a major lawsuit long ago between Netscape and Microsoft over software bundling. Pretty sure it Microsoft in reaction made Internet Explorer free to avoid the monopoly claim effectively. This bankrupted Netscape because their browser was their only revenue driver whereas Microsoft could still sell its other products. Mozilla the non-profit was formed and inherited Netscape's browser software which was then supported by Google paying for it's search engine to be the default browser page in Firefox and funding the majority of the donations to Mozilla for years. So it's actually a huge deal with seemingly exactly the same precedent from the same company only a couple decades later. Kind of surprising they keep trying so it must be very lucrative.