Mozilla CEO Sends Angry Open Letter To Microsoft Over Changing Windows 10 Browser Defaults

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With Edge in Windows 10, Microsoft has finally delivered a capable browser to replace the aging Internet Explorer. Microsoft likes Windows 10 so much, it makes Edge the default browser in Windows 10, even when you’re updating from a system that previously used Chrome or Firefox as the default.
 
Unsurprisingly, Mozilla is not amused and its CEO Chris Beard today wrote an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to complain that the company is taking away its users’ choices and ignored Mozilla’s calls for keeping the default during the upgrade process.
 
“When we first saw the Windows 10 upgrade experience that strips users of their choice by effectively overriding existing user preferences for the Web browser and other apps, we reached out to your team to discuss this issue,” Beard writes. “Unfortunately, it didn’t result in any meaningful progress, hence this letter.
 
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Hopefully, MS fixes this browser default changing problem. 
 
I disagree. I hope they don't fix it. It's their operating system and they can do whatever they want. If Mozilla (or any other software company) doesn't like it, let them build their own operating system that's better than Windows, so they can take Microsoft's customers away.
 
I agree with alakazam, but at the same time also agree with Frog that it strips user's freedom of the OS. Such a move would only force people to turn to linux based OS or others.
 
Its fine with me. Microsoft make the OS, by default they should back their own Edge. Its the only one they can count on being installed upon an upgrade. Its really easy to change, I have to Chrome already. Its not a big issue at all.
 
I think this auto default browser settings to Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 10 can be annoying since a lot of people don't like having their default settings like default browser for Windows, and default search engine settings in web browser changed without their permission.

Changing default settings is also not good for a software companies reputation because a lot of spyware, adware, viruses changes the default web browser homepage, and default web browser search engine settings without the user's permission. I think it is best to not to be like spyware, adware, and virus makers who change Windows' settings without user's permission.
 
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