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
    2020-09-23T13:34:27+00:00

    I am HAPPY to see this post!! It is great to know... No matter how "tiny" our voices are to the GIANT HEARTLESS Corporation is... The fact remains that WE ARE NOT ALL SHEEPLE. Someday... We will find a way to create something like windows and take BACK what is suppose to be ours. What goes UP MUST come DOWN. EVERY DOG has its DAY Microsoft. So keep on with your power tripped habits... Unlike OLD businesses who kept clients for YEARS... Your downfall will be FASTER than you think. Look at GIANTS like WAL-MART THEY felt invincible probably like you do now... What happened? BOOM AMAZON was BORN and Walmart is LOOSING ground FAST. They PRACTICE BETTER PEOPLE SKILLS than Walmart BOTH as providers of SERVICE AND EMPLOYERS. IF you were SMART you would take a lesson or two from HISTORY and see your PRIDE comes before your FALL. I DON'T  CARE if "MILLIONS " ARE SHEEPLE AND DONT MIND. THE 100 OR SO  of US WILL STAY AWAKE AND EVENTUALLY TURN THE TIDE. YOU. WILL. LOSE.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-28T17:28:09+00:00

    ... it ... is forcing me to use Edge browser which I do  not want to do.

    Windows is insisting that you the user make the choice of which browser to use by default. It will not - in the interests of user choice - allow applications (like third-party browsers) to alter your own preference.

    Click Start and select Settings, then Apps. Under Default apps, select the web browser you want to use.

    You may have to repeat this exercise if an application tries to change the setting in the future.

    That is what happened with me I changed back to Firefox as my default the next morning my default had changed back to Edge .   I don't do a lot of anything mostly play and read my email and watch utube videos Well I use to before Edge.   nothing I do bring back my notication for those videos.  I have tried my self  but could not .  I contacted my Dell service tech they could not get my notification for me. I would like very to have IE and Firefox with my utube notication. I am not that versed with computers.   I just mostly play and that is why I purchased tech service from Dell.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-05T21:26:01+00:00

    Microsoft is not forcing anything. You gave them permission to install Edge or any other updates when you agreed to the Terms and Conditions when you installed Windows 10.  Microsoft granted you the right to install and use Windows 10 but, they kept ownership of Windows 10 and the to determine what features would be installed, When, and by what method. 

    I hope this helps, and if you need any further assistance, please post, and we will be glad to assist you.

    "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." John Muir

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