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Yet somehow, Windows 10 and 11 are dripping with contempt for the user, but the EU still hasn't acknowledged that as an antitrust problem worth investigating. Their insistence on pushing users into Edge alone should be enough IMO. Stuff like Edge "accidentally" opening on startup and some links "accidentally" opening in Edge instead of your default browser and your default browser setting getting "accidentally" reset to Edge and the taskbar shortcut for Edge "accidentally" reappearing.

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Since Edge is built ontop of Chromium and it is a distant 2nd to Google’s Chrome would that trigger EU compliance issues?

It doesn't matter which engine it uses if it does a lot of stuff to represent Microsoft's own interests. Data collection, Bing integrations, other bullshit features like offering loans in payment forms (I remember reading about that), etc

The EU seem pretty soft on Microsoft these days. The Activision-Blizzard buy out when off without a hitch in the EU.

I agree. It's high time the EU took action against Microsoft.

>Yet somehow, Windows 10 and 11 are dripping with contempt for the user, but the EU still hasn't acknowledged that as an antitrust problem worth investigating. Their insistence on pushing users into Edge alone should be enough IMO.

At this point, I'm not sure it's worth investigating. This isn't the 90s when everyone was running application software directly on their PC; now everything is done in the cloud or through your web browser somehow. I honestly find it funny when Windows users have all kinds of agony because of that "contempt" you refer to; if they don't like it, they're free to switch to another OS. I've been watching this for over 25 years now but people just won't give up Windows, even when they only use it for web browsing, so I've lost all sympathy for them, even though the Windows user experience keeps getting worse.

The fact so much is don’t in the browser now makes their abusive pushing of Edge even more egregious.

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