Microsoft is using Bing to discourage Windows 10 users from downloading Chrome and Firefox

VentureBeat ^ | Sep 4, 2015 | Jordian Novet

[Conan the Librarian]

Been using SeaMonkey off of my flash drive now for about 5 years. It’s a great browser suit. (IT’s also the same as Firefox).

I do wish SeaMonkey had a 64bit version.

To everyone: I suggest that you all look into getting Portable Apps for a flash drive. You can get Chrome or Firefox (and SeaMonkey) that you download to a flashdrive suite at take the whole thing with you were ever you go. Great for when you are on public computers and don’t like their set up, or, the set up is locked.

AS for Bing, I think I am smart enough to take Bing’s advice without having to use it, and, to work around it. It’s just not that big of a deal.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Between this (okay, it’s only an annoyance for an Ixquick user) and...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3333285/posts
Don’t check that box! Windows 7 patch KB 3083324 sneaks in (a patch for Windows Update??)
InfoWorld ^ | Sep 4, 2015 | Woody Leonhard

and...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3331984/posts
Microsoft backports data slurp to Windows 7 and 8 via patches (Win 10 spyware comes to 7, 8.1)
The Register ^ | Sep 1, 2015 | Andrew Orlowski

...makes me wonder exactly how much more crap or long it’s going to take before folks (like me, for one) just decide to skip the remainder of the silly circus act and dump W7, W8.1, W10 and all else Microsoft in the nearest sh**can.

If it only takes some more money to do so, I can justify going full Apple, and if Linux costs me some time and tests my patience, I’ll just do that in place of a couple rounds of golf.

I’m just about pushed as far as I’m going to go by this current Microsoft craporama. (...and that’s coming from someone who has used the system back to the damn Stone Age.)

[Still Thinking]

“Microsoft Edge was designed exclusively for Windows 10 with features and functionality that enhance the browsing experience data collection for commercial and statist totalitarian purposes, such as Cortana, Web Note, and Quick answers,” a Microsoft spokeswoman told VentureBeat in an email.

Oh well, probably anyone that wants WX in the first place probably won't mind.

[ShadowAce]

Firefox comes standard with my OS.

[dayglored]

Yep, earlier tonight I was putting CentOS 6.7 in a VM on one of my Windows laptops and when it came up with Firefox in the default tools bar it was such a joy... :-)