If you don't like how difficult it is to change your default web browser in Windows 10... well, you may be particularly upset in the near future. A leaked Windows 10 preview release now gives you a prompt whenever you're trying to switch away from a default Microsoft app, such as the Edge browser.
This is part of the reason why people don't like microsoft. It keeps trying to force itself on users. I get these prompts are supposed to be helpful... but they're really not. Most users who are switching do so because they already use other programs and are often far more familiar with them. Or they offer features/functions that microsoft's own don't. (Like VLC for example is compatible with almost every file type under the sky, microsoft's video player? doubtful.)
Microsoft wasn't really known for doing that until Windows 8 came along... I have no idea what made them think this new direction was going to have their users' approval, considering that everyone has been criticizing Google for having a similar approach on Chromebooks.
Microsoft's done some things like this in the past too (vista's UAC was one such occasion, actually... pretty much vista in entirety), though they just became more prevalent since windows 8. (When they decided scrapping the start menu, forcing the metro ui and ignoring customers was the right plan.) And it's been largely downhill from there.
Considering that Apple computers and incredibly expensive for many people, and that Linux is not that user-friendly, they pretty much have the monopoly, in a way...
