When Windows 10 launched, Mozilla published a guide on how to reset the operating system’s default settings to choose Firefox over Edge. Specifically, that the update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have.
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Microsoft has suffered a backlash from Mozilla concerning Windows 10 default browser setup.
“It now takes greater than twice the variety of mouse clicks, scrolling by way of content material and a few technical sophistication for individuals to reassert the alternatives that they had beforehand made in earlier variations of Windows“. But Microsoft’s new web browser for Windows 10, called Edge, might prove to be superior. “It’s complicated, arduous to navigate and straightforward to get misplaced”, Beard’s letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argued. Firefox will still flash up with an automatic prompt to make it your default browser, however, it is a much longer process than before.
Microsoft Edge showed significant performance gains over Google Chrome, but what’s most impressive is that Microsoft used benchmarks created by Apple and Google: Edge was tested using Google Octane, Apple JetStream, and WebKit Sunspider.
Windows 10 users can easily choose their preferred browser, Microsoft said.
Back in 2009, the company was required by the European Commission to include a “Choice screen” that would enable users to make their own choice from the various web browser options that are available. As with all aspects of the product, we have designed Windows 10 as a service; if we learn from user experience that there are ways to make improvements, we will do so.
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The windows 10 has been a release which has broken all marketing and pricing barriers for Microsoft and has been nothing short of being “historic” as for the first time ever the company has released an OS for absolutely free of cost.
