@[email protected] @[email protected] "informal alliance of browser makers who are all prevented from competing fairly on Windows PCs" with Google Chrome having ~75% market share on Windows? It's ridiculous.
@[email protected] @[email protected] at least Windows gives you a browser ballot. On macOS you're pretty much stuck with safari by default. Android recently asked with a browser ballot too.
I think this action is great but should be for all parties. I don't like the browser ballot that much, but it's a good thing in theory
The browser ballot is not there on Windows anymore. It was there years ago in Europe.
There was a time where you could install a browser and the browser would ask you if it should be set as default. If you said yes, it would be default. No further steps were needed. It could also be placed in the dock easily, for easy access.
Microsoft has gradually made all of those steps harder... except for them selves. They are set as default when you get the computer and many of us have experienced a Windows update that more or less without asking makes Edge default again.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I do remember those times for easy install, easy default. But yeah in recent years they have gotten more either lets trick you back or just blatantly “oops” set it back with an update (or reenable things like copilot)
@[email protected] @[email protected] not defending Microsoft here but is it not the same with Macs and Chromebooks? Macs preference Safari and Chromebooks preference Chrome, why single out Microsoft in this post, should we not be aiming this at all operating systems
This doesn't seem like a problem that requires an all-or-nothing solution, and as well Windows is far and away the most popular desktop OS in the world: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268237/global-market-share-held-by-operating-systems-since-2009/
Even though other companies are part of the problem, Microsoft is the largest part of that problem, and it's not even close.