Theres like 2 or 3 commonly supported browser engines and the people who run them are complaining about unfair monopoly by a browser whose main purpose is to find another browser?
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I mean I really don't think it's that big of deal. Edge only makes up 5% of market share, so it's obviously not helping them that much.
That's not the problematic metric though. It's the 70-80% (link) install base of the Windows OS on desktop computers that Edge is installed with that's the basis of the anti-competitive allegation.
The fact that it still only takes 5% of the browser usage is more of a happy accident.
That makes sense but also they clearly need any edge they can get. Maybe they should even make it more difficult to install other browsers. Like artificially lowering the search results of other browsers. Maybe they could get 6% market share that way.
so does Microsoft Windows
One might even say it has an... Edge
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I thought we've already been through this before?
I vaguely remember getting the option which browser to use during an install before.
Feels like they need to stop nitpicking about this stuff. I barely know anyone that even uses Edge, it's almost like it just functions as a downloader for Chrome or anything else.
At what point are they gonna stop? Until Windows comes without any browsers at all? And we'll have to store copies of installers on USBs And postmail Google if we want a copy of Chrome.exe because we accidentally deleted it?
That was a Windows 7 thing - it used to be hosted at https://browserchoice.eu but that's long gone now.
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