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September 13, 2018 01:15 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YP1JY1ZDyA4/insider-build-of-windows-10-bl.html
Insider build of Windows 10 warns users not install Firefox and Chrome
The popup explicitly describes itself as a warning—as if intercepting malware. 2018's Microsoft, same as 1998's Microsoft.Companies like Google or Microsoft have used their market position in the past to push their own products. Google pushes Chrome on all of its properties when users use different browsers to connect to them, and Microsoft too displayed notifications on the Windows 10 platform to users who used other browsers that Edge was more secure or power friendly.
The intercepting of installers on Windows is a new low, however. A user who initiates the installation of a browser does so on purpose.
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YP1JY1ZDyA4/insider-build-of-windows-10-bl.html
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