WHY am I being FORCED to deal with Microsoft edge?

resisted reply to you, what are you trying achieve with the shilling/trolling here, must be a real fulfilling existence, not, get a life man you just make a bigger and bigger **** of yourself, no need to reply, never coming back to this unmoderated ****, people like you have no business technology, being a dork/dweb may be acceptable for the pitiful mess at MS these days. All the decent engineers of the past are long gone, just a bunch of social misfits posers  who don't seem to be able to produce anything useful,  just repulsive

Yes, it really sucks when people such as richard000000001 tells people the truth about technology, not the lies and garbage that are posted in this forum. So if that makes someone a troll then so be it, as I can't speak for richard000000001, but I'd rather be a truthful person any day of the week than someone who spreads lies and misinformation. I'm thankful I'm in tech so that I can help others, you seem to know only how to toss insults and add nothing productive or sustentative to the discussion.

Bonne chance!

• Yes, many people mess around with their O/S by editing registry or installing **** software and 9 times out of 10 it causes issues.
• Yes, a browser is part of the O/S and should not be removed. Apple has Safari and Google has Chrome because one needs to have at least one browser that can't be uninstalled in an O/S. After all if there was no browser how would you download your favorite browser? Riddle me that one . . .

Point 1 there is irrelevant, as clearly the issues mentioned here are part of ordinary installations which people have been encountering and so any presence or absence of editting of the registry is irrelevant.

Point 2 is false. Yeah it's far harder to download your favourite browser without a browser, but you could get the file installed by a CD or memory stick from another computer, or write your own browser. A browser is not an intrinsic part of an O/S even if it's highly unadvisable to try and go without one.

Happy?

Now, I expect it would be good to stop distracting from the actual conversation of Microsoft's unethical update.

1. Totally relevant as users are users and many of them in these forums do exactly what I describe
2. Right, the average user is going to do that. Nice try.

Yes, completely happy that my points are correct.

Nothing unethical or distracting about Microsoft updating the browser in their O/S that people agreed to when they said Yes to the terms and conditions of using Windows. No different then them updating the Calculator or Maps app.

Happier now?

Yes, it really sucks when people such as richard000000001 tells people the truth about technology, not the lies and garbage that are posted in this forum. So if that makes someone a troll then so be it, as I can't speak for richard000000001, but I'd rather be a truthful person any day of the week than someone who spreads lies and misinformation. I'm thankful I'm in tech so that I can help others, you seem to know only how to toss insults and add nothing productive or sustentative to the discussion.

Bonne chance!

I'm sorry but you and richard are not contributing to the discussion and are intentionally being ignorant I must assume.

Let me simplify it before you try n' blame the people again.

Things were running fine for people before the update, people did not have their screens hijacked by an uncloseable window. (And the ability to close a window and shut down a process EASILY is something we have come to expect on windows, quite reasonably).

Some people have also found the new program, which is not intrinsic to the functioning of an OS is causing them problems, and are finding themselves to be now unable to uninstall it.

An uncloseable window and an uninstallable piece of additional software are two problems who we can only blame microsoft for.

They may be legally in their right to do so, although we do know they have faced lawsuits for updates changing your default browser before, so maybe they are overstepping a mark somewhere here, I'm no legal expert, but I can say that there are serious concerns from the perspective of programmer ethics, regardless of legality with these two issues. Now, please stop trying to distract and whitewash the situation around these concerns.

(On a further note, while I can't comment on the process of uninstalling edge now, I can comment that my laptop got hijacked by the uncloseable window, and while my desktop does have some unusual elements to it's installation, my laptop is in near factory-condition and is quite mundane in many regards, so the inability to easily close a window is definitively without a doubt microsofts fault. So that'll dismiss your "oh boo hoo you probably broke your registry" arguement)

Seriously, you say you don't try to shut down discussions, then immediately go on to try and shut down and whitewash discussions.