Microsoft started testing a warning for Windows 10 users last week that displayed a prompt when Chrome or Firefox was about to be installed. The software giant is now reversing this controversial test in its latest Windows 10 preview, released last Friday. The Verge understands Microsoft no longer plans to include this warning in the upcoming Windows 10 October 2018 Update that will ship next month, but that the company may continue to test these types of prompts in future updates.
Good move, but I don’t think we’ve seen the last of this quite yet.
1 step forward, 2 steps back.
Microsoft will never learn
Hi,
Microsoft are a lot of things, but they’re not completely stupid.
Most likely is that they knew people would react badly and wanted to know how badly, so they added the “feature” to find out the size and magnitude of complaints (fully planning to do a “LOL, we decided not to do that in the final release” before they even started).
– Brendan
The will try again. And again and again.
Rather sad really. Why don’t they just accept that people want to use software that isn’t your version of [insert exceremnt word of choice here]?
Play nicely and you will make friends. Carry on like this and you will just get people’s back’s up even more that they are already.
completely agree, it seems that any time microsoft builds up a little good will they spend it instantly like a compulsive gambler.
We’ll back off for now, then ram it down your throat later when you aren’t expecting it.
As a web developer, this sort of behaviour makes me want to actively seek out ways to exploit Edge’s sluggishness to support new web platform features to build Edge-incompatible websites where I would normally otherwise write stuff which degrades gracefully.
(If you putter around on sites like caniuse.com, you’ll notice that, often, The New Hot Thing^a"c features will be supported by everything except IE, Edge, and Opera Mini… and Opera Mini isn’t a full browser.)
When I try to search Chrome by Edge browser I still see 3 different advertisements to use Edge in favor of Chrome for various reasons (speed, security, low footprint, security etc).