Microsoft tells Windows 10 users they can never uninstall Edge. Wait, what? | ZDNet 📦

90    16 Aug 2020 18:57 by u/DarkMavrik

27 comments

13 u/subdjp 16 Aug 2020 19:08
A combination of not wanting people to ever delete it and terrible design, as some windows components depend on the built in web browser to function. It's why they kept internet explorer around forever despite the new (well, now the old) edge being a thing.
8 u/Daman_1985 16 Aug 2020 19:09
I use Edge only as a PDF reader, and only a few times. I don't like these MS policies, fortunately at least for the moment you can still skip certain things.
3 u/None 17 Aug 2020 05:23
Get rid of chrome, take the edgepill. It's basically the exact same thing. I'd say go for firefox as they are the only truly "open source" option but mozilla recently backtracked. Also, they are knee deep in social justice bullshit.
3 u/DarkMavrik [OP] 17 Aug 2020 05:29
I really loved mozzilla, no idea why they and half the opensource community decided to drag politics and bullshit into the technology field like they did.
2 u/ChronoGuru 18 Aug 2020 16:40
Yep. I uninstalled it from my personal PC and all my work servers I manage. Also sent Mozilla a nasty, respectful message telling them to piss off, and not to bring politics into their tech.
2 u/None 17 Aug 2020 13:29
>Also, they are knee deep in social justice bullshit. True but ironic how you are recommending a Microsoft browser after saying this. Look up Microsoft Pride.
2 u/None 17 Aug 2020 00:46
>Yet the strategy with Edge is clear. Microsoft wants to expand market share in a hurry. It wants a big bite of Chrome, which is now known to be a slow memory hog. It also wants to decimate the very good people at Firefox. uhm, Microsoft's new Edge browser is based on Chrome, it doesn't decrease Chrome's market share if people switch to edge, just like it doesn't decrease Chrome's market share if you use Brave you're still using a Chrome derivative powered by Google's Chromium.
1 u/AnotherBro 17 Aug 2020 07:54
This is just like IE. The system requires some kind of browser to be installed. You really don't *have* to use Edge you know. Might as well use Brave and Firefox, and remove all shortcuts to Edge. It would be similar to complaining that notepad.exe is preinstalled while you prefer vim.