Comment on Nadella testifies at Google antitrust trial
flumph@programming.dev 1 year agoDoesn’t the fact that every Windows PC ships with Edge and yet Chrome has 70% market share on desktop make a case against the idea that “defaults are everything”?
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
PCs had been shipping with Chrome as the default for years due to agreements with OEMs.
ALSO, things did get bad enough for a few years that the general public did at least partly realize the IE sucked and that was part of the initial migration.
But now Edge is aggressively placed and it is becoming more prevalent despite the general public knowing zero advantages to it over Chrome.
CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because it’s Chrome.
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
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CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Starting in 2020, Edge Browser is built on top of Chromium.
…microsoft.com/…/download-the-new-microsoft-edge-…
Google’s browser dominance is so pervasive, that Microsoft had to adopt Google’s browser technology because users demanded access to add-ons and user experiences akin to Chrome.