[dayglored]

Hoo boy. This wouldn't be as bad if Edge was a great browser, but it's not. And limiting users' choice simply because you can is not very polite.

[dayglored]

Windows 10 is going to REQUIRE using Edge browser? ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[HamiltonJay]

MS can’t help but try to control its users... they can talk about being more open all they want. Same old song and dance

[dayglored]

> Microsoft’s justification for the change is that Edge is the best, most secure browser on Windows 10.

Some users may take issue with that assessment.

[Blennos]

This wouldn't be as bad if Edge was a great browser..

That's not the point. I don't want Microsoft dictating which browser I use.

[humblegunner]

I’ve had Windows everything from the start.
10 included. It never forced me to do anything.

Hey, are you also one of those nuts that thinks Facebook forces you to provide personal info?

Do you also think the Earth is flat?

[backwoods-engineer]

Doesn’t think violate the Justice Department consent decree against Microsoft from way back in the day? Back in the early 00’s (I think), they were forcing users to use their browser.

[hsmomx3]

I don’t care for the browser.

Just never use the their mail feature.

I always check my email in FireFox.

[discostu]

So the 3 people in the world that use Windows Mail will have links go to Edge. Which they were probably doing anyway because people who use Windows Mail are not the kind of download other browsers. Not really much there there.

[Architect of Avalon]

Software should do what the people who buy it want it to do, not what the people who sold it want to force the people who buy it to do.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They didn’t learn a damned thing when Netscape sued them twenty years ago.

[Drew68]

I don't mind Edge. Personally, I think Microsoft knocked it out of the park with Windows 10.

I'd been using Macs almost exclusively since '06 or so and found myself a few months back in a position where I needed a cheap laptop. I purchased the first Windows machine I've had in a long time and I'm impressed!

[DeFault User]

I’m so freakin’ old I still have a hotmail account. (Not my only one but at least I don’t have AOL.)

[mjp]

right now I have edge, chrome, and firefox open at the same time. I use each one for different things. No biggie.

[freedumb2003]

Edge sucks mightily.

I am used to a windowed interface and DESPISE the full screen/tiled interface.

This might force me to the Dark Side — Apple.

Seriously.

[Midwesterner53]

Windows 10 is an uninvited virus. I minimize it and use Chrome.

[Company Man]

Who on earth clicks on links embedded in email?

[factoryrat]

I work for a multi-billion dollar company that spans 23+ states, and has its own telcom company to support its network traffic.

Win 10 is reeking havoc across the entire system. So much so that we’ve started switching to linux as the OS for our critical systems.

[RayChuang88]

I’ve used Edge. It’s actually a surprisingly good browser since every tab run as its own process like Chrome does. And it works a lot smoother than even Firefox 59.0.

[cynwoody]

Email Client Share for February, collected by Litmus Email Analytics from 934 email opens:

https://emailclientmarketshare.com/

[so_real]

Didn't Microsoft attempt to bake their web browser into the operating system without exception once before, almost two decades ago? Wasn't there a massive lawsuit regarding monopolies that forced them to allow other web browsers to co-exist? Didn't Microsoft lose? Have they forgotten?