WHY am I being FORCED to deal with Microsoft edge?

Anonymous
2020-06-21T10:09:03+00:00

This is insane. I woke up, turned my pc on and see that while my computer updated Microsoft sneakily installed a new version of edge. The icing on the cake, however, is that my system's screen was commandeered by an unclosable presentation forcing me to watch a slow and meticulous explanation of all of the changes you've made to my system that I never asked for and want nothing to do with.

This behavior is doing the opposite of what your company wants to happen. These forceful tactics do not make anyone want to use your service and immediately make you a nuisance and enemy to the user. It's as if you as a company feel your users are going to be too stupid to notice this change or too lazy to go back to using their original browser and just passively accept the changes you've made. We're not cattle. We make our own decisions. 

So here I am, taking up my time and energy trying to change things BACK to the way I had them, on the computer I pay a lot of money to own and maintain.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-30T14:56:09+00:00

    widows edge was forced on my laptop and I can not remove it

    because of this it will not allow me to open up programs I need for work!

    I do not understand why if something is working why I was forced to take something I did not want, Plus I can not get any help from Microsoft thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-27T18:32:28+00:00

    I agree. One sunny afternoon, I turned on my laptop only to find the screen hogged by the new Edge update. I had to wait until it was finished setting up before I could continue to Chrome, never to use Edge again. If Microsoft wants its users to use Edge, forcing it is not the way to do it.

    It's called updating their own software, without which certain functions won't even run, messing up your pc/laptop. It's not forcing, you're free to use chrome. If updating software is called forcing then idk what kind of...

    R7anubis,

    I see that you suffer from selective reading, ignoring what you do not wish to acknowledge.

    1. Microsoft may have decided to own Windows - selling us a license, (leaving us to learn Linux software or Expensive Apple OS or else live with it),

    BUT !!! they are still updating on OUR COMPUTERS, OUR HARDWARE, Using OUR TIME.

    Taking up OUR Valuable TIME to update or ADD a BROWSER is thief of our time and computer resources. I had a smaller 32bit Asus that is trash because of forced updates that were too much resource heavy for that little 2 in 1.

    I have Bing forced on my Phone as a search default, it is not as good as my other choice. Yet I HAVE TO waste my TIME because Big Corporations have money interest in Products I use.

    I do not know if you work for Microsoft or just dream of it but I assure you I would go back to Dos6/Win 3.2 in a heartbeat, [well maybe XP because of the home networking] just to have ownership of the things I pay for (No ,I would never lease a vehicle).

    1. Microsoft tried install 'Games' with Explorer in the Past, was Sued for those misdeeds, and is trying it again because someone thinks "inhouse" can be controlled better. They still forget the fact that HUMANS are the Users, who do not want BIG Corporation Ideas shoved down their throats. Just as I can not Demand Justice from a Judge, Microsoft needs to Request the USER'S Time and Hardware resources.

     The analogy is buying a Vehicle while leasing the Engine with the tech to monitor real time use,  WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT THAT KIND OF OVERSITE ?

    {Yes, that is almost exactly what Big Truck, Lease to Own Operators do}, I am not one of them.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-27T06:19:07+00:00

    I agree. One sunny afternoon, I turned on my laptop only to find the screen hogged by the new Edge update. I had to wait until it was finished setting up before I could continue to Chrome, never to use Edge again. If Microsoft wants its users to use Edge, forcing it is not the way to do it.

    It's called updating their own software, without which certain functions won't even run, messing up your pc/laptop. It's not forcing, you're free to use chrome. If updating software is called forcing then idk what kind of...

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-27T06:18:03+00:00

    How will MS answer if you ask in an unofficial forum -_-? Send feedback and ask them. They might reply

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-27T06:16:39+00:00

    Oh please, there's nothing like that. You can use ANY app that is installed from ANYWHERE on your PC/laptop. That's the advantage of microsoft, unlike mac os where you can't do such stuff.

    Don't blame MS for your faulty software. Try resetting it, hopefully it works.

    Instead of that, don't blame MS for random stuff like this.

    I've been using chrome from a long time, and it worked, for 10 YEARS

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