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Posted on 05/04/2017 3:08:35 PM PDT by dayglored
After Tuesday's big launch of Windows 10 S, it emerged the software will force people to use Edge and Bing. How can that be?
The supposedly streamlined operating system aimed at kids and their teachers will only run apps from Microsoft's official Windows 10 S software store. Right now, there are no third-party browsers available from its shelves. That leaves users with the bundled Edge browser and Bing for web search.
You can't change the search engine from Bing, and, for now, you can't get another browser besides Edge. Even if you could get another browser, Edge will override all the time, such as whenever you click on a HTML document. In an FAQ, Microsoft explained:
Microsoft Edge is the default web browser on Microsoft 10 S. You are able to download another browser that might be available from the Windows Store, but Microsoft Edge will remain the default if, for example, you open an .htm file. Additionally, the default search provider in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer cannot be changed.
You can, if you're desperate, bookmark Google or Duck Duck Go, or similar, and use that button to look stuff up. If you don't like any of this, then don't use Windows 10 S – use Windows 10 Pro instead. That's Microsoft's official line.
"We believe Microsoft Edge and Bing provide the best and most secure experience on Windows 10 S," a Microsoft spokesperson told The Register on Thursday.
"Customers are in control of their Windows experience and users who prefer to install apps from outside the Windows Store and modify default settings can choose Windows 10 Pro instead."
So far, neither Firefox, Chrome, nor any other browsers, have been either submitted or accepted into Microsoft's latest souk, so they are not available to Windows 10 S systems. We imagine Mozilla, Google and other developers will eventually get round to offering their apps in the store.
That's assuming they're allowed: it rather sounds as though Redmond would prefer it if you just sodded off to Windows 10 Pro if you want to use, say, Chrome, leaving Windows 10 S free of any annoying rivals and other riffraff.
Welcome to Microsoft streamlined: run what we tell you, or cough up an extra $49 for Windows 10 Pro and run what you want on your own computer. A fifty-buck Google and Chrome tax, if you will. ®
The folks at Microsoft are finally learning the lessons of the past 3 decades of computer marketing...
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Just go to APPLE, and forget all about Microsoft!
Unfortunately, Apple has at times been just as restrictive of user choices. They're generally better now, but there have been times...
Edge is a deal-breaker for me. I think that IE-4 was more robust and efficient. If Edge was my “only” choice I would choose no.
The saying “Use Edge and go to Bing will never catch on. Microsoft knows this and that is why they blocked their competitors.
Windows is Windows but Microsoft charges more or less for slight variations.
I remember the days when Microsoft Windows bundled Internet Explorer essentially making it the only browser allowed to operate with its computer software. Other browsers could be loaded via a purchased disc or over very slow modems. They were sued for antitrust violations and finally settled without MS being broken up as a monopoly. I guess MS hasn’t learned the lessons of those early days of the internet.
the lessons of the past 3 decades of computer marketing...
“Don’t sell the product, sell the users- their marketable information.”
IHa! I was re-watching one of the Matrix movies and was viewing the Matrix as a construct of marketeers gone wild.
Schools are ditching Windows for Chromebooks and Chromeboxes.
This technician doesn’t run anything newer than Windows 7 on my hardware.
>Just go to APPLE, and forget all about Microsoft!
Apple, Microshaft and islam all have something in common...brainwashing, sloth and bad choices.
So for your computing/smartphone needs, do you prefer:
"...at one point, half of the CDs manufactured worldwide had AOL logos on them...."
> ...Version 2.0 was included with my seat cushion, no joke! I still have the seat cushion.
That's just too weird.
I’be learned my lesson well. No more Microsoft. And if apple keeps its attitude no more of them either.
Or install a Linux system and avoid Microslave altogether. Some of the Linux systems now are easy to install and offer everything that most people want in computing.
Edge is the worst...Worst...WOrst...WORst...WORSt...WORST browser ever, ever, ever.
Microsoft’s answer to the cloud.
I don’t have the Windows Store but then again universal apps are way overrated.
They’re good on tablets but suck on the desktop where 32 bit desktop apps are far superior.
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