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Nadella gutting the Windows Q&A team (probably so he can increase the Windows user tracking team) is a gift that keeps on giving.

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Or, the marketing team which wants you to fucking love Windows 10.

They can start by not forcing me to use IE Edge + Bing to search the internet from the start menu.

I shouldn't have to install a third party app to change the default browser and search engine that gets launched from the start menu search. (which I did anyway)

No matter what you do, you're not getting me to ever use your browsers ever again MS. I grew up in the 90s and am currently a web dev. I know exactly what pieces of trash your browser devs produce.

... except nowadays Chrome is pretty much the equivalent of IE during the 4-6 era, adding various barely-standardized APIs (not even behind flags - why?) that don't work in any other browsers and having whole teams of 'developer evangelists' telling people they should target Chrome first and foremost.

Most of their experimental stuff are behind flags, and the parts that aren't tend to be finalized or in a stage of finalization but chrome tends to be the first to implement.

Safari and edge are both quickly caching up (even passing chrome in many areas), and as much as it saddens me, Firefox is only falling behind.

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