Anyone who thinks the browser that comes with Windows is the 'underdog ’ is a complete moron.
Microsoft seeks EU Digital Market Acts exemption for underdog apps like Edge | Vivaldi boss calls for browser choice and warns that Redmond might be deflating usage figures
Submitted 1 year ago by ZeroCool@feddit.ch to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/26/microsoft_dma_exemption/
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db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 1 year ago
No one actually thinks that.
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
That’s what I’m saying though, if the regulators buy that line of crap they should be fired.
olympus@kbin.social 1 year ago
Edge should be treated the same way as the browsers of Google and Apple.
They all have including Microsoft operating systems that try to make people to their browsers with "recommendations".
Especially Microsoft is more aggressive today on that than Google or Apple. Because most people refuse to switch to Edge.
If Edge isn't on the same "app position" of Safari and Chrome and is treated like Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave etc... that's a scandal.perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So Windows has an option to select a default browser. And then Outlook has an option to open links, where the two options are the default browser that you selected in Windows, and Edge. And it defaults to Edge without ever asking you. Seems a bit suspicious after the United States made them offer a choice of browsers.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Is any chromium based browser an “underdog” ? You’re still contributing to and supporting the google hegemony.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Microsoft buyer of Activision blizzard, is whining about their default browser is not used enough. 🤡
BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just popped in her to rep Vivaldi. It’s my daily driver. (I also use Firefox, Opera, etc)
TheGreatFox@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Firefox user here. Vivaldi is the best chromium-based browser I’ve found, so I use it for sites that refuse to work with non-chromium browsers.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Vivaldi user here. I gave FF a go again, oops still no proper sidebar. Back to Vivaldi
nix@merv.news 1 year ago
I use pulsebrowser.app its a Firefox fork with a sidebar. floorp.app is another one
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lol I love being downvoted to oblivion for having a personal preference.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Been a user for years now.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Microsoft spokesperson told The Register: "We accept our designation as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act and will continue to work with the European Commission to meet the obligations imposed on Windows and LinkedIn under the DMA.
“Microsoft is basically fighting it,” said Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner in an interview with The Register.
Warming to his theme, Von Tetzchner noted other ways that users were nudged Edgewards at the expense of alternatives – such as his company’s Vivaldi browser.
We should be clear that it is possible to change the default browser within Windows, although the process is perhaps not the easiest to follow, particularly considering the plaintive cries from Edge at nearly every step of the way.
“My impression is that Google wants to kind of follow the rules, on other hand, trying to find their best way to make them less effective,” he said.
Unsurprisingly, Von Tetzchner also had harsh words about Apple, whose restrictions have meant that the iOS version of Vivaldi has had to be based on WebKit.
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Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 1 year ago
Underdog? Underdog?? It's literally the default!
It's like saying vanilla is the Underdog ice cream flavour haha